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...Three years ago Cardinal Hlond fled from Poland one jump ahead of the Germans and took refuge in Rome. When Italy entered the war, he hastened to Lourdes in Unoccupied France. There he became a virtual prisoner; under German pressure Vichy refused to let him go. But when the Nazis swallowed Vichyfrahce last fortnight, Cardinal Hlond fled over the Pyrenees to Spain...
Protected by her brother, Serge, who left the College as a Sophomore this year to join the Army Air Corps, Tamara spent the period of virtual imprisonment under the watchful eyes of four Jap police and sundry spies...
...colonies in the name of Marshal Pétain-and with the approval of the U.S. authorities. He set up his own military command under the stanch old soldier and escapist General Henri Honoré Giraud (TIME, Nov. 16). Still in the name of Marshal Pétain, a virtual prisoner now in his own capital of Vichy, still with the approval of the U.S. commanders, an administration took form in North Africa under this former collaborator with Germany-in the rear of the Allied armies sweeping on toward Tunisia...
Died. Wilbur Glenn Voliva, 72, shepherd of the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion, virtual dictator for some 30 years of Zion, Ill.; in Chicago. He expected to reach the age of 120 on a diet of Brazil nuts and buttermilk, recently remarked that if he died before 1990 nobody would be more surprised than himself. He was best known to the world at large for his conviction that the earth is "flat as a pancake"-a belief he still held after a round-the-world cruise. In 1910 he got control of all Zion's real estate...
...seeds of suspicion between two allies that are on the verge of undertaking the most gigantic military operations in history. An American labor movement that clings tenaciously to 19th century unionism and coyly condones 20th century labor gangsterism, making hostages out of thousands of unwary small business men, and virtual economic prisoners of hundreds of thousands of its won trapped members cannot mortally attack dictatorialism in other quarters. The paradox of such an attack and refusal to cooperate with Soviet labor would only be another A.F. of L. skeleton to file and forget were it not for the dangerous international...