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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In Brussels, five days later, the 1940 Olympic Games were considered as good as canceled when Count Henri de Baillet-Latour, president of the International Olympic Committee, announced that if the Games cannot be held in Finland, as scheduled, they will not be held at all. Originally the 1940 Olympics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No Prize, No Play | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

> The mood of idealistic British Laborites has been one of political funk ever since their beloved League of Nations collapsed, the Nazi menace reared its head, and they could think of nothing more popular to do than support the Conservative Government's program of swiftly rearming Britain. Last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: What They Deserve! | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

When the British first set up their wartime censorship apparatus, Lord Macmillan, Chief of the Ministry of Information, told correspondents that the censors had been instructed to delete or kill from their dispatches only information of a military nature. Matters political would not be touched. Last week tall, lanky Claud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Herren Censoren | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

The typical French soldier's wife was going a bit hungry last week, scrimping to send her man all she possibly could. One Mme Jeanne Durand, who has a job paying $50 monthly and has been sending her husband nothing, was sensationally hauled into court on his demand from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Too Busy! | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

"Vagabondage of Dreams." Since World War II has caused few casualties in France, the famed chateaux of the Loire are not yet converted into hospitals as they were in World War I. French women last week were actually having a good deal harder time in every way than French troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Too Busy! | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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