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...Eastern empire of many races a suitable place in the new scheme of British policy. Along among the colonies India possessed a high non-Anglo-Saxon population which necessitates special treatment. What would work for Australia and Ireland would not do, it was thought, for India. So a make-shift arrangement was knocked together to serve in the land of the Ganges. It did not work very well, everyone admits that, and the Nationalists are demanding with an ever more loud voice that India be granted her independence. So the Simon Commission has made an exhaustive examination of the entire...
...stroking the latter, paddle to the three mile limit during the morning workout, Coach Haines giving careful attention to the boat which he hopes will continue its winning streak by taking the Eli first year men into camp on June 20. The combination is making excellent progress, the recent shift not having been made so late as to hinder development...
...adventure of Christopher Columbus ended happily, so did that of Federico Velasquez last week. Since he absolutely would not accept the post of Secretary of the Treasury, which would mean a shift from Opposition into the Government, it was decided that after all the best thing to do was to let him out of jail and hold the charges hanging clubwise over his head...
Prouder were they that through the society's efforts 350 "sight saving classes" for the education of children with serious defective vision are now functioning in 95 cities of 21 States. The pupils use texts with large type, have movable desks so they can shift about the class rooms with the changing daylight, get special teaching...
...Priests are automatically deprived of all civil rights?that is to say, they are not allowed to possess ration cards nor are they allotted to any housing space. They have to shift for themselves or?as usually happens?they are fed and housed by their congregations. It has to be said that the majority of priests are well cared for. At the slightest sign of counter-revolutionary activity they are at once shot, imprisoned or banished to Siberia...