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...House is probably the greatest mystery and the least understood organization in the Yard. To the three hundred undergraduates who take part in it each year, it is a community service organization providing opportunities in everything from directing educational radio programs to leading a boys' club in a Charlestown settlement house...
This left Shanghai in the hands of some 1,200 U. S. Marines, a negligible French garrison and an overwhelmingly superior Japanese force. Shanghai's senior foreign officer became Rear Admiral Moriji Takeda, who could presumably ask for and take over the "defense" of the International Settlement. Since the U. S. could not and would not assume responsibility for fighting off the Japanese alone, Shanghai's International Settlement last week was as good as surrendered. Shanghailanders knew that they had lost their queer hybrid foreign city, not quite 100 years...
...with a foreign power, and engaging in propaganda against France. Safe in his dingy suite of offices on London's Victoria Embankment, where he is trying to rally free Frenchmen to the cause of liberation, General de Gaulle took his death sentence lightly, declared: "I shall have a settlement of accounts with the men of Vichy after the British victory. I consider this act to be void...
Shortly after midnight next morning, in an apartment on the Japanese side of Soochow Creek, Timesman Abend was packing trunks, making ready to move into the International Settlement, when a fist pounded on his door. He opened it, saw two Japanese in civilian clothes with drawn revolvers. One of them struck Newsman Abend on the head, the other wrenched his arm behind his back, demanded: "Where is the anti-Japanese book you are writing...
Early this year the Japanese attempted to give Alcott a physical tossing around. Jap terrorists tried to drag him out of a rickshaw in the American Defense Zone of the International Settlement, but he escaped through an alley. Since then he has used a Packard with bulletproof glass, toted a gun. Busy as a bird dog, Alcott serves as cable editor of the China Press between broadcasts, improvises his scripts from news flashes that come over his desk. Married recently to a White Russian he met in the Settlement, Alcott is thinking of settling down. If the Japs...