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Professor Bruns got pretty angry. Frenchmen might lie, but photographs could not. This picture was incontrovertible proof that Sumner Welles and Paul Reynaud had discussed a post-war settlement. See, said the professor, how the Allies planned to dismember Germany and friends: Poland restored and enlarged at the expense of Germany and Russia; Schleswig-Holstein to Denmark; German cessions to Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Switzerland; Austria restored with an Adriatic outlet at Trieste; Yugoslavia enlarged at Italy's expense; Italy's vital Dodecanese Islands to Greece; Turkey increased at Bulgaria's expense...
...speakers at the opening session, Helen Hall, director of the Henry Street Settlement in New York City, and Nathan Straus, administrator of the United States Housing Authority, will talk on the place of private and government agencies in community planning...
...male commission which broods over the question between General Conventions (next one: next October). Chairman of the female commission is the Auxiliary's Executive Board Chairman Mrs. Robert G. Happ of South Bend, Ind. Some other members: Mrs. Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch of Manhattan's Greenwich House (settlement); Mrs. Charles Leslie Glenn, wife of the popular rector of Christ Church, Cambridge, Mass.; Mrs. Norman B. Livermore, San Francisco socialite and clubwoman...
...which Adolf Hitler set apart in 1933 as a "bird sanctuary," knew something remarkable was going to happen one night last week when, at 8:15 p.m., two big airplanes came diving down over him through the low-lying clouds "with crazy speed." They were headed for List, the settlement in Sylt's northern tip, whence (as all Danes know) most birds and all fishermen long since moved out to make way for a Nazi seaplane base...
...have missed an issue of your timely magazine, and may thus seem ignorant of recent developments, but what has happened to Hawaii? Has it been secretly anschlussed by Japan? Have the ocean waves risen to engulf it-Navy, pineapples, Kalaupapa leper settlement and all? Or are your editors ignorant of the fact that the Organic Act declares Hawaii to be an American Territory, "an integral part...