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Student demonstrations took place in Oslo last week against the Government of traitorous Premier Vidkun Quisling. There were nightly forays of protest, during which boys tore anti-Semitic signs from Jewish-owned shops. The Gestapo disbanded a students' association, arrested several, threatened to close Oslo University for the winter term...
...because of his own hoarse weariness, the speech was unsatisfactory to the Republican crowd present, who applauded sparingly, halfheartedly. Dissatisfied, they called him back. He spoke a kind word for Bruce Barton. Still dissatisfied, they roared for more, more, hotter oratory. A man in the front row jumped up, tore a speech text in half, shouted: "There, that's over! Now tell us!" Puzzled, pleased, the shaggy man returned, and (on the theme: "If we do not prevail this fall, this way of life will pass") lit out with a short impromptu encore that stirred his audience to enthusiasm...
...Court handles noncriminal matters: juvenile and domestic cases, a probation system, a medical department. To familiarize themselves with its problems, the winning artists attended court sessions, including closed hearings. What leftist Artist Joe Hirsch learned left him stumped. Assigned to decorate the "F. & B." (fornication and bastardy) courtroom, he tore up sketch after sketch, exclaimed: "I can't cover that wall with bastards." Finally he painted panels relating to a child's security: an adopted bootblack; a foster father playing with a child; another helping a child up a ladder; a child trotting to school...
...bomb. A German squadron boasted it had toasted victory in champagne in the sky, and then dropped the empty bottles on the palace which was bought from the Duke of Buckingham by one of Britain's German Kings, George III. Rougher ammunition blasted the palace five times, and tore at the spot where millions have watched the changing of the guard. Hit was the paneled house in Chiswick where William Hogarth retired during the summers to draw. So was the Gothic House of Lords-by an incendiary bomb, the fire from which was doused by Members of Parliament. Dingy...
Says realistic Historian Burckhardt: "Like all the great creative forces in history, Richelieu was a great destroyer. He tore down as much as he built up, yet it was not his fault, but that of his successors, that they did not grasp the profound lesson of his work, the lesson that no wall must be removed unless another and better one is erected...