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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Benes believes that the "Fascintern" will collapse of its own armor-plated weight. He thinks the job of the democracies is to avoid war at almost any cost until time comes to their side. Eduard Benes is thus an optimist. He refuses to believe that Germany will attack his little State. His optimism he bases on three considerations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Optimist | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

...Attacks on British ships in the 23-month-old war were brought to 60 and the 78th British seaman was killed. The British-owned port at Gandia, with Union Jacks painted on the rooftops, was bombed and machine-gunned in what British Manager Edwin Apfel called a "deliberate brazen attack on British property." At Denia, a raisin exporting centre, the French merchantman Brisbane was bombed, five seamen were killed, a British observer for the Non-intervention Committee killed and the captain injured. Farther down the coast at Alicante the British freighter St. Winifred and the 5,387-ton ship English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Brazen Attack | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

...Between President Adler and President Wise there is intense personal dislike. Last fortnight, speaking for his Committee and for "Americans who are Jews," Dr. Adler denounced Rabbi Wise's "Hitler plebiscite." In return, on Dr. Adler's home grounds in Philadelphia, Rabbi Wise made a bitter personal attack on Dr. Adler, charging he had known in advance of Hitler's rise to power, had advocated a "do-nothing" policy in the belief that Naziism would die of itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Jews v. Jews | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

Died. Eric Peet, 36, National A. A. U. senior singles four-wall hardball handball champion in 1931, 1933, 1935, 1937; of a heart attack while playing handball; in Brooklyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 20, 1938 | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

...gorilla is a sluggish thinker," Nutmegaphoned Editor Tunney. "He only knows one attack. He goes after something and grabs it with his hands and then hugs it to his breast, crushing the life out of it when possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Gorilla v. Man | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

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