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From India came this comment on the Indian problem by Chakravarti Rajagopalachariar ("C. R."), stanchest United Nations friend at liberty to speak his mind: "Whoever is to blame, they have succeeded in creating a great mess. The extension of the Viceroy's term symbolizes the situation most completely. Every party is sitting tight. . . . Now the situation is more difficult than before...
...lavish regimental colors with a new set of eight battle-streamers marking the participation of Citadel men in as many operations in the Civil War. The school is also proud of a streamer (added in 1939) embroidered "Confederate States Army," for The Citadel is the nation's stanchest stronghold of the Grey traditions...
Last week the President also: > Was host to Ecuador's firm, friendly President Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Rio, one of the Americas' stanchest Good Neighbors. At the White House President Arroyo was guest at a state dinner, remained overnight, discussed long and earnestly with Franklin Roosevelt the prospects for post-war economic unity in the Western Hemisphere...
...worldwide broadcast after the war began a fortnight ago, Communism's stanchest foe, Pope Pius, left Hitler's crusade strictly alone, spoke no word that could possibly be stretched to favor the Nazi campaign...
Europe's two stanchest neutrals remained stanchly neutral: Switzerland and Turkey. Turkey apparently accepted Russia's denial that Foreign Commissar Molotov had asked Hitler for bases on the Dardanelles. To a French request for passage of troops to Syria, Turkey said...