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...much thinking about Croat grievances, with an eye to settling them before Messrs. Hitler and Mussolini make a big gesture of stepping in and doing it for him. Last February conciliatory Dragisha Cvetkovitch replaced unpopular Premier Milan Stoyadinovitch and promptly began to negotiate with old Dr. Matchek for the settlement of the Croat-Serb dispute. Last week Serbs and Croats celebrated what they considered the resolution of the Croat problem...
...logical thing is to reduce rents. This could be most easily done by the University's building of a housing settlement for instructors on the vacant land across the river next to the Business School. At present this land is lying idle; at the same time the University is complaining that it cannot get a large enough return on its investments. If it were to build such a project and to charge rents low enough to minimize the cost to the instructor of educating his children, even were the land not to be tax-free, the University still would...
...stanch supporter of Appeaser Chamberlain, Sir Nevile's return led to rumors that the British Government was again turning tail and was preparing to lead Ally France into another Munich settlement. From Foreign Office spokesmen in London, however, came the assurance that Sir Nevile took back to Berlin a message from the Chamberlain Government which: 1) advised Führer Hitler not to reject flatly President Roosevelt's appeal, 2) warned that Britain might answer further German aggression with peacetime conscription...
...Shanghai's International Settlement, which the Japanese would like an excuse to take over, Japan's consul general, Yoshiaki Miura, paid a call on Cornell S. Franklin, Chairman of the Settlement's Municipal Council. For 17 months since Japan took Shanghai, said Mr. Miura, anti-Japanese newspapers in Chinese and English had been publishing matter highly offensive to Japan. It would be nice if they stopped. In a noteworthy display of the better-part-of-valor, Chairman Franklin "agreed to take appropriate measures"-suppress them...
...bomby Sunday afternoon, Mona Gardner sat in a Shanghai park talking Chinese poetry during a Japanese air raid. Outside, Soochow Lane was jampacked with coolies toting vegetables to Shanghai's International Settlement, and fugitives toting babies, bedding, household goods to safety. Neither vegetables nor babies arrived. Suddenly a light bomber roared a hundred feet overhead, its machine gun working-then two more. Because the simplest horror is the most stunning-automatically "our feet take us" to look at heaped bodies on the road, on the barbed-wire barricades, or those still trying to crawl through...