Because The Nation, left-wing weekly, had come out for U. S. rearmament, veteran Liberal Oswald Garrison Villard,* longtime (1918-33) editor & owner, since 1933 a weekly contributor, resigned. Wrote he in a valedictory article last week: ". . . America is to be safeguarded, not by guns and warships that may be rendered valueless overnight by new inventions and new tactics, but only by greater economic and industrial wisdom, by social justice, by making our democracy work." Said Nation Editor Freda Kirchwey: "It frightens me to read such articles. They represent, to my mind, a danger more present than Fascism."

In her Westport, Conn, home, normally cheerful Helen Adams Keller, famed blind deaf-mute, observed her 60th birthday as "a day of mourning." Through her secretary she explained: "The world is in such a state I cannot be gay by any manner of means. .

To Lisbon, to confer upon Portugal's Dictator-Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar the Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, flew a British mission, led by H. R. H. Prince George Edward Alexander Edmund, Duke of Kent.

In Madrid, whither they had fled from France (TIME, July 1), the Duke and Duchess of Windsor dined with Miguel Primo de Rivera, provincial chief of the Falangist (Fascist) organization, at the swank Palace Hotel; revealed that on their journey from their Cap d'Antibes villa they had been reduced to eating canned sardines. Confided the Duchess: "They were most delicious."

Broadcast for the first time by Cleveland Bandsman Lee ("Stubby") Gordon was a new song written by Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. (in collaboration with Kendrick Sparrow). Title: The Rest of My Life With You.

"Detained under defense regulations" in London was Lady Diana Mosley, wife of imprisoned British Fascist Leader Sir Oswald Mosley, pre-war friend of Adolf Hitler, sister of Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford (once termed the "perfect Nordic beauty" by the Nazi Fuehrer, last reported convalescing at her father's Oxfordshire home from a mysterious head wound sustained in Germany).

Danny Gleason was orphaned at 12, quit school after the grades, got a job as a New York policeman, spent seven long years shunting traffic daytimes, studying hard for his high-school diploma at night. In 1932 the Congregation of Holy Cross accepted his vocation, sent him to Notre Dame. After eight years of near-top marks in college and seminary, he was finally ordained. Last week, from Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral, where they had just heard the Rev. Daniel Maria Gleason, C.S.C., sing his first High Mass, trooped 3,500 blue-uniformed cops. At a Communion breakfast afterward they cheered wildly when Police Commissioner Lewis Joseph Valentine presented their ex-buddy with a gold chalice upon which shone a reproduction of his old shield, No. 1925.

In Chicago, 62-year-old Moses Louis Annenberg, publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer was sentenced to three years in Federal prison. His offense, of which he had pleaded guilty: evasion of $1,217,296 in income taxes in 1936. Still to be paid by Moe Annenberg in the biggest income-tax prosecution in U. S. history: $9,500,000 in civil penalties.

Combining the efforts of various U. S. relief agencies, the Allied Relief Fund, under President Winthrop W. Aldrich, began a drive for $5,000,000 to shelter refugee children in America, received unsolicited checks before the campaign even started from ex-Torchsinger Libby Holman Reynolds Holmes ($250), many another. Money will be spent by the U. S. Committee for Care of Europe's Children, of which Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt is honorary chairman (TiME, July 1).

Said Playwright George Bernard Shaw, still talking constantly at 83, "I've always advised people not to arouse the English, because once aroused they're capable of more heroism and more atrocities than anyone else."

* Last week Son Henry Hilgard Villard, at his marriage in Manhattan to Mary Caroline St. John, fainted as he rose from the altar after the ceremony, was carried out by his brother, Oswald Jr.

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