Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Foreign Minister Colonel Josef Beck. He pointed out that Poland is in part composed of former lands of the German Empire, argued that if any former Imperial colonies are restored to Hitler's Germany "it is obvious" that similar colonial territory must be "proportionately restored" to Poland! This brilliant piece of Polish logic gave the French Foreign Minister a fine headache with which to start his tour...
...Herbert Hoover, became Defense Minister in 1920, has since been Minister of Justice four times, today is the uncle of his own Foreign Minister, Paul Henri Spaak. Often a representative of Belgium at sessions of the League of Nations, Premier Janson is rated conscientious, independent of mind and a brilliant orator. "My new Government," he declared, "will continue Belgium's policy of steering clear of foreign alliances...
Handicapped by the graduation of its two ablest players, Captain Johnny Harkness and heavyweight Bill Glendinning, an aggressive wrestling team faces an unimposing M. I. T. squad on the Tech mats today. Brilliant Yardling grapplers expect to topple the Crimson and Gray Freshmen in the same meet...
Probation is the only throat to a near-brilliant team this year. On the basis of the Yale meet last spring all but one of the outstanding men in each track and field event have returned...
Tracing this distinction from the feudal period to the totalitarian state, with a vast display of scholarship, innumerable quotations, occasional flashes of bitter humor, Dr. Vagts includes two brilliant sections that might well be reprinted as separate volumes. One is a provocative analysis of the pre-War German army, its officers split into snobbish cliques, undermining the plans of their rivals without regard for the cost of human life. The other is a soberly inspiring appraisal of Washington as a military genius who is almost unique in history in that he had no militaristic ambitions. Net conclusion...