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IT V” *? M”ES—Judging from the distance Allied troops still had to travel to Berlin and
ToVyo at the end of 1944, fighting was expected to continue, in the Pacific at least, into
1946. Here is how fronts looked as the world greeted 1945. Shaded areas were Axis-held.
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What do YOU want to know
about Britain? Americans working
over here don't know all the ans
wers, but what they don't know
they will try to find out. Send
your questions to the American
Outpost, 13, Old Square, Lincoln's
Inn, London. W.C.2.
(3) When do terms begin at the
British universities?
Ans.: There are three terms per
year running from October to
the Christmas; the end of January
to about Easter; and from Easter
to the end of July.
(4) Was there any difference in
the ways in which the British cel
ebrated VE and VJ days?
Ans.: The VE celebrations were
bigger and more heart-felt, since
they expressed the relief everyone
felt at the end of the air raids.
Young and old rejoiced together,
and the turning on of the VE
floodlights after nearly six years
of blackout was obviously more
exciting in itself than any amount
of the paper throwing indulged in
on VJ day. The VJ crowds were
enormous and very happy indeed,
but 'they consisted mainly of the
young people who had expected to
have to go and fight. We were in
terested to see that most of the
Americans in Piccadilly were
wandering about singly or in twos
and threes, as if they were more
WANT TO SPEAK
ALEUT? HERE’S HOW
By J. FRANK TRAGLE
WASHINGTON — ‘‘Turn a n i n
Ariaq ’aman akuxtxin inin kungin;
assan amcug’asadag’ta.”
Most of you, of course, will not
recognize this immediately as the
beginning of The Lord’s Prayer.
If you can’t read it, there’s no
reason to feel particularly inferi
or. It’s in Aleut.
A literal translation is:
“For-us father who thou art
heavens on them; thy name it-to
be-exceedingly praised.”
There are about 6,000 American
citizens of the far north who speak
Aleut. On Jan. 15 the Interior De
partment will issue the first
Aleut-English dictionary, and the
Aleut-speaking people will receive
a new alphabet,, using characters
similar to those in English.
The Aleuts inhabit the Pribilof,
islands, the Alaska peninsula and,
of course, the Aleutians. They
have been under American sover
eignty for 78 years—since 1867
when Alaska was purchased from
Russia for $7,200,000.
As can be imagined, conversa
tion with these Bering Sea citi
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interested in watching the others
than in celebrating themselves.
They were either more energetic
or less self-conscious than the}
British when it came to standing j
on such vantage points above the)
crowds as lamp posts, window
sills, and the sand bag pedestal
in the Circus.
SCREEN ROL E — Sister Kenny, famed for her develop*
ment of an infantile paralysis treatment, adjusts the nurse’s cap
worn by Rosalind Russell, who is playing her part in a new movie
about the nurse’s career. 1
zens has been difficult. For after
one has succeeded in reaching
them, the peculiarities of their Es
kimoid dialect are such as to make j
Aleut virtually a separate lan
guage. This, says the Interior De
partment, is a result of the Aleuts
being isolated for many years on
sub-Arctic islands.
The Aleuts themselves have had
some language difficulties. While
under Russia they had to learn
Russian. When converted to Chris
tianity they were required to learn
Old Slavonic, the language of the
Russian Orthodox Church. Now,
with a new dictionary, they can
start learning English. With a new
alphabet they can brush up on
Aleut.
The dictionary is the product of
two men—Ivan Veniaminov, who
later became Innokenti, the Met
ropolitan Archbishop of Moscow,
and Richard H. Geoghegan, a
Dublin-born authority on lang
uages.
Veniaminov, born in 1797, was
sent to Unalaska in 1823 as a mis
sionary. His efforts to put the na
tive tongues into writing resulted
in his publishing of a “Dictionary
of the Aleut-Fox Language” in
1834. This is the volume which
has juat been translated into Eng
lish.
Geoghegaty vVasQ' distinguished
Oxford who eventually
ended up iit""Aia.ska as an officer
of the United States District
Court. At the time of his death in
1943, he was credited with having
a deep knowledge of more than
200 languages and dialects.
Georghegan did the early edit
ing of the dictionary. When he
died Mi$s Frederick Martin of
New York, as associate, completed
the job.
The new Aleut alphabet has 18
characters similar in appearance
to those in English but pronounced
quite differently. The “x” for ex
ample is pronounced like a hard
“ch.” Two characters, “ng” and
an “s” with a gabled roof over it, i
are so difficult to explain that
only an Aleut student would be
interested.
STYLISH — Betty Cornell,
18, (above) of Teaneck, N. J.,
a model, was chosen as one of
the six best-dressed ’teen-agers
by a group of New York sty*
lists.
Polar Liquor Store
Finest Assortment of Liquors
On The Seward Peninsula
Phone Your Orders Open From 8 A.M.
Black 138 To 6:30 P.M.
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