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Engagements

Lois MacMurray, ’46, to Lt.
George W. B. Starkey, Army
Medical Corps Reserve.

Grace Dole, ’44, to Lt. Paul Ed-
ward Kohler, Jr., USNR.

Marriages

Dolores Oresman, ’44, to Ensign
Irwin Silverstein, USNR.
Joan Campbell, ’47, to Ensign

Russell Blalack, USN.







Propaganda Effect
Discussed By English

Continued from Page 1

technical difficulties. In the first
place, the OWI officials had assum-
ed that ‘with the large Italo-Amer-
ican population there would ‘be no
difficulty in getting announcers.
They found, however, that most of
the Italians in this country are
Neapolitans or Sicilians, and speak
a dialect very different from what
is considered cultured Italian.
When the OWI finally secured a
group of recent immigrants from
northern Italy, it soon found, Mr.
English said, that its broadcasts
had the character of an under-
ground station, with a strong dog-
matic view and I-told-you-so atti-
tude towards Italian defeats and
encroachments by the Germans.
Moreover, its broadcasts, arranged
and written for mass consumption,
were reaching not more than 500,-
000 Italians. Of the four million
short-wave sets in Italy at the be-
ginning of the war only two mil-
lion were capable of getting broad-
casts from New York, and these
had so deteriorated that not more
than 500,000 were now able to get
adequate reception of New York
programs,

Col. Stevens

In addition, the OWI found it-
self competing with the B. B. C.,
which maintains a very excellent
Italian propaganda service. The
success of this organization, Mr.
English stated, is due in a large
measure to a Colonel Stevens, who
spoke “impeccable” Tuscan. Oddly
enough, the American counterpart
to__Colonel _ Stevens, despite his
very faulty Italian, is Mayor La
Guardia. The Italians were im-
pressed by the Mayor’s connection
with Roosevelt, by his experience
in the Italian army in the last war,
‘and by the fact that he is the
mayor of our largest city. Letters
began to come to the OWI prais-
ing La Guardia not only as a-dem-
ocratic spokesman, but “because
everybody thought he was funny.”

In a study of Italian morale and
Italian attitudes toward the war
and post-war period made in an
Italian prison camp in this coun-
try, Mr. English found that “there
is a great deal of defeatism amonz
the Italians.” Fascism has never
gone quite as deep as Nazism in
matters of dogma and ideology,
with the result that the Italian
prisoners lack the fanatical belief

-_in__their__system—that-—the—Nazis|,

have. However, Mr. English found
a great deal of loyalty to the king
and the monarchial system in
Italy, while loyalty to Mussolini
is practically non-existent.

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the northeast, explained Profess.
or Halecki.

In addition to their common
need_for_defense,.the.subjects_of
the new Gedymin dynasty ° were
united by the development of a
common culture, he said. The cul-
tural trends of the Renaissance,

the Reformation, and the Coun-
ter-Reformation spread through
Poland to the other territories

under the Polish federal system,
uniting them in common beliefs.

The government established for
these peoples, according to Pro-
fessor Halecki, was one which
recognized the absolute equality,
both practically and legally, of
the two main constituents of the
federal system.

The Gedymin dynasty was es-
tablished in 1885 when the Treaty
of Krewo was signed in Lithuan-
ia agreeing upon the marriage of
Jadwige of Poland and Jagillo,
Grand Duke of Lithuania. A peri-
od of strife followed the death of
Jadwige, but delegates of the two
countries met in 1418 at Horadlo
to sign the Act of Union. These
new articles of union stated that
Lithuania was to have her own
grand duke. They stated that the
Crown of Poland could not be fill-
ed in the future without the
agreeent of Lithuania, and _ es-
jtablished regular “convention
and parliaments.”

The Union of Lublin in 1569 set
up the Republican Commonwealth
which endured until the Parti-
tions. In the Union of Lublin,
Sigismund Augustus satisfied op-
posing parties in Lithuania and
Poland by placing Podlasia and
Volhynia directly under the latter
while Lithuania proper and the
White Ruthenian provinces re-
tained the prerogatives of a grand
duchy. The Union of Lublin con-
summated the federal system,
Professor Halecki pointed out, by
stipulating that the connection
between Lithuania and Poland
should be perpetual and that a
single ruler should be the symbol
of the unity.



the post-war period, Mr. English
found that a great many of the
prisoners wished to remain in this
country after the war. They feel
that “Italy offers,fio future to
young men,” and they have seen
their -relatives in this country,
wherever they may be in our econ-
omic scale, much better off than
their own families in Italy. A
great many of the Italians believe
a social revolution is at hand, and

expect a government patterned on|.-

communist ideals. However, a
great many of the prisoners would
like to see a democratic govern-
ment patterned on our system arise
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There paper
shortage, but not on campus.
Save all old newspapers, maga-
zines, wrapping paper. By Sun-
day deposit all such paper in
neat, separate piles in the tea
pantry designated in each hall.
It will be collected every two
weeks by the Salvation Army.
Keep paper circulating. Help
win the war sooner.

is a severe







Granger to Discuss
Negro Race Conflict

' The Philadelphia chapter of the
American Association of Social
Workers will present Lester B.
Granger in a lecture on the “So-
cial Worker in Relation to, Race
Conflict” at the Social Service
building, 311 South Juniper St., on
Thursday, January 12 at 8 p. m.
Walter White, Secretary of the
(National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People will
also speak. Mr. Granger is the
Executive Secretary of the Nation-
al Urban League, one of the oldest
Negro organizations in this coun-
try. His discussion will deal with
the functions of social service in
alleviating race problems.

At the Wellesley Summer Insti-
tute for Social Progress this sum-
mer, Mr. Granger stated that “ra-
cial equality is a barometer of
democracy, and present readings
(recent race riots, such as those in
Detroit, Mobile, and Beaumont) in-
dicate a stormy time ahead.”

NAACP

The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People,
which will be represented by Wal-
ter White, publishes a monthly
magazine, The Crisis, which has
received wide circulation in recent
years. The purpose of the NAACP
is to combat the spirit of persecu-
tion which confronts colored peo-
ple and other minority groups in
the United States.

Granger’s organization, the Na-
tional Urban League, has been es-
tablished to make investigations
among Negroes in cities, to pro-
mote social work among Negroes
until other agencies extend their
programs to include them.













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A. Smedley. Discusses
Chinese War Politics

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Completely reforming government,

with an all-out.attack on the Jap-
anese armies, they~institi dem-
ocratic._elections,.. electi several

Kuomintang officials. The remain-
der of the Kuomintang, however,
branded these elected bodies as
Soviets, sending some troops to
quell the “Communistic element.”

“The nearest parallel to all
this,” Miss Smedley remarked, “is
the Jugoslav partisans led by Gen-
eral Tito ... the regular armies
must be considered much as the
Jugoslav Chetniks, hating the en-
emy in some cases, but hating the
guerrillas more, because they rep-
resent a people’s army and have
turned the war into a _ people’s
war.” .

In relation to the effect of Al-
lied policies from pre-war days to
the Cairo Conference, Miss Smed-
ley presented the unfavorable
Chinese point of view, based on
our dealings with Japan and and
Enland’s attitude toward India.

Quoting quesios asked her by a
Chinese divisional commander,
Miss Smedley described the Chin-
ese fear, before the Cairo Confer-
ence, of white-man imperialism,
and the feeling that the British
and Americans would never relin-
quish any claims in the East for
an objective, altruistic peace.

Since then, however, we have
taken steps toward retrieving our
prestige in China. The abolish-
ment of extra-territoriality, and
our Chinese Exclusion Law, with
new treaties
China have deprived Japan of
many propaganda instruments. In
addtion, China’s participation in
the Moscow and Cairo conferences
has given China an important po-
sition internationally, a position
which has given China a new im-



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Because the 12.09 local is late
so often, the Executive Board
of the Self-Government Assoc-
jation extends all 12.15 permis-
sion to 12.30 to allow adequate
time for returning to the halls.
This extension includes those
activities which may not in-
volve trains, to prevent: confu-
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Capt. Marquis Tells

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useful about the ships—running
the post-exchange, the library,
some concerts, a paper, and the
switchboards.

At Oran they disembarked and
were sent to a convent outside the
blacked-out city of Algiers. Here
the lack of comfortable accommo-
dations and subsequent air-raids
gave the WAC’s their first taste
of war. During their stay at the
convent, and later in the city prop-
er, their capable, willing service
elicited the highest praise from all
the agencies for which they work-
ed—as switchboard operators, lin-
guists, statisticians, map-makers,
draftsmen, typists, and drivers—
and from General Eisenhower him-
self:

Yet through the grim and grimy

| work the girls kept their emotion-

al control and a sense of humor.
Perhaps that is one reason why so
many more are needed.

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