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Show NAMES . . . in the news Rev. Dr. William Lindsay Young, president of Park college, Missouri, was chosen moderator of the general assembly of the Presbyterian church in the United States. This election took place at the 152nd Presbyterian general assembly, held at Rochester, Roches-ter, N. Y. There were six candidates. candi-dates. Simultaneously, Aaron Copland Cop-land was elected president of the American Composers Alliance in New York city. Said Mayor LaGuardia of New York: "The only way to escape international in-ternational complications is to get off the earth, and we are not ready for that." And the mayor said other things not calculated to help him with New York's Italian and nationalist nation-alist voters. Then he joined the Committee for the Defense of America Through Aid to the Allies. A Negro with the unusual name of Alfonso Jansen got (maybe) an even more unusual sentence, in New York. He slapped the face of Susie Hall, and the judge asked her for a suitable penalty. Susie said: Send Jansen back to Africa for 1,000 years. The judge replied that he'd think it over. Alfred Duff Cooper, recently an English propagandist in the United States, and now the official English propaganda minister, said that English Eng-lish and French defeats had done more for the cause of the allies than eight months of propaganda. Duff Cooper has been a special student of that tricky French diplomat, M. de Talleyrand. And Sir Samuel Hoare, air minister in the Chamberlain Cham-berlain cabinet till Churchill fired him to please British Labor, was named for a propaganda mission to Spain, in an effort to detach Dictator Dicta-tor Franco from Dictator Mussolini. |