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Agreeing with Cross plan for regional federation as the answer to the postwar world, Sidney Fay, professor of German History, discarded hidden motives behind war alliances to emphasize that a plan of action accompanied with a frontler settlement must be ready for the armies of occupation when they march into Germany...
...spoke in favorable terms of the destruction of [Jerusalem] by the Romans in the year 70 A.D. . . . A man of speculative mind, he tried to figure out how long it would take a smart battery of artillery posted on the Mount of Olives to knock the whole bloody settlement to pieces, and his guess was that it could be bloody well done in half an hour. He was, he said, bloody hot for trying it and he hoped that it would be done in some bloody future...
While there is agitation for a radical or conservative social settlement of world peace, there is none for a moderate arrangement, sufficiently broad to include all but implacable communists or irreconcilable reactionaries...
Also announced at the meeting was the appointment of Lyman Wind '45, as chairman of the Social Service Committee. He announced that his group was trying to fill heavy demands from the Boston settlement houses and at the same time was working on plans to entertain in large military units such as the Chelsea Naval Hospital...
Anthony Eden's backbreaking job is either to settle these and other differences with Russia, then to sell the settlement to the U.S., or to reach a postwar agreement with the U.S. that will be acceptable to Russia. As of this week the outlook was gloomy...