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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the conflict went beyond peevishness, developed into a first-class row. Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano sent to British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax a stiff, formal note, warning that "the coal in question meets an indispensable need in the life and labor of the Italian people," criticizing Britain's coal blockade system it declared the blockade "is of the kind to disturb and compromise economic and political relations . . . between Italy and Great Britain," served notice that Britain would be responsible for "further developments." Next day Britain defiantly announced that it had taken into custody two Italian ships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Steps and Directions | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government, has asked the girls in his course on Public Opinion and Propaganda to learn if the possibility of war has caused women to prefer girls to boys, who might become the victims of the conflict...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RADCLIFFE POLLS SQUARE ON PREFERENCE IN BABIES' SEX | 3/7/1940 | See Source »

Upon the unfolding panorama of World War II last week appeared new trouble spots, new stirrings of warlike activity which seemed to foretell a vast widening of the conflict as grand strategy was deliberately evolved and brought into play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GRAND STRATEGY: Widening Out? | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

...pitch of intensity on all the established fronts of land, sea and air between the Allies and Germany, while Finland continued to give ground slowly and bloodily before the Russian avalanche, events at the top and bottom of Europe tended to embrace and at the same time expand the conflict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GRAND STRATEGY: Widening Out? | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

...Varsity swimming meet with Princeton this Saturday, originally scheduled for 8:30 o'clock and later moved up to 7:30 to avoid a conflict with the hockey game with Yale, has now been definitely moved back to 8:30 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ULENMEN DEFEAT M.I.T. WITH PERFECT SCORING | 2/29/1940 | See Source »

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