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...young Jan Valtin and 27 fellow Communists, armed with guns and hand grenades, attacked five policemen in a station in Hamburg ("From the floor a policeman was still firing. The stevedore crushed his face with a kick of his heavy boot. Another policeman had the side of his neck torn away; he was bleeding to death under a table. . . ."). While the U. S. was worrying about the depression in 1930, Conspirator Valtin was carrying money from Antwerp to Montevideo, glued into the lining of a suitcase C"Astonishing numbers of undercover agents were on their way to South American states...
...children, stopped epidemics, restocked whole provinces with farm tools, seeds and livestock, left permanent centres for "international good will" in Berlin, Vienna, Geneva, Paris. Between wars they built schools in Mexico, helped Okies and jobless coal miners, ran hostels for refugees. Now they are busy once more in war-torn Europe. Last week Marshal Pétain received Quaker Howard Kershner at Vichy, expressed "profound gratitude" for the work Quakers have done in occupied France...
...visitors eked out a win in the dives over Sophomore Brad Patterson despite the fact that Patterson dove better than ever before in varsity competition. He scored 96.3 points to McNamara's 98.5 total. Shaw McCutcheon, regular first string diver was absent from the lineup because of a torn muscle in his shoulder. He will be ready to make the trip to Annapolis this week...
...believe that it is the inalienable right of the Indian people, as of any other people, to have freedom. . . . India has been ruined economically. . . . Politically, India's status has never been so reduced as under the British regime. . . . Culturally, the system of education has torn us from our moorings. . . . Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly in the presence of an alien army of occupation. . . . We hold it to be a crime against man and God to submit any longer to a rule that has caused this fourfold disaster to our country...
...generation that would have to live in the war-torn chaos which the interventionists are trying to force on us. In the defence of America we are ready for any sacrifice, but for America's sake and democracy's we feel obliged to submit to you our firm belief that we have the strength to preserve democracy in the Western Hemisphere and that we must not dissipate this strength in European and Asiatic wars...