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...country. He made only suggestions to the nation which will, unless defeated, give France its actual Order when it gets around to it. "Doubtless Germany . . . can choose between the traditional peace of suppression and a wholly new peace of collaboration. Germany may prefer the new method to the misery, strife, repressions and conflicts of peace in the old manner. . . . First choice of course rests with the victor. . . .If all roads are closed to us, we shall know how to suffer and wait." Thus France knelt to her conqueror...
Such a force in Harvard life today deserves examination, not only because of its intrinsic contemporary importance, but also because of the inherent drama of its history. For the University Theatre is the daughter of strife...
...strategy, see color map opposite p. 62), was somewhat more hypothetical-because of the unknown quantity, Russia. But Germany and Italy would like to have a go at bothersome Turkey. Excuses for a campaign in the Balkans were a dime a dozen. Italy had one all ready: border strife between Greece and Albania. Troop concentrations threatened a major short circuit at that partly burned-out fuse last week. The way had also been paved by the partition of Rumania and the abdication of King Carol. By last week the Iron Guard's revolution in Rumania had been completed...
...Outstanding was New York City's Benjamin Franklin High School, a crowded, dilapidated school without playgrounds. Three-quarters of its students are foreign, most of them Italians and Puerto Ricans. Its neighborhood, Manhattan's East Harlem and Nazi-infested Yorkville, is a hotbed of racial strife. Principal Leonard Covello organized courses in intercultural understanding, got his pupils discussing whether there were any pure races, whether the "Aryan race" was superior to others. Soon students formed a Friends & Neighbors Club, cleaned two vacant stores next to the school as headquarters, held meetings and dances, started classes for their parents...
...citizenship to rich Americans. Tradition claims it was founded by a hermit stonecutter named Marinus who gathered about him Christian slaves-the poor and oppressed. Cesare Borgia briefly conquered it in 1503, Cardinal Alberoni overran it for a year in 1739, but always, through centuries of war and political strife, with Italian acquiescence, it maintained its borders, governed itself wisely and well...