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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French military mission to Moscow, the hope of drawing Russia into the British-French guarantee of Poland's independence, the Franco-Soviet military alliance, the comfortable belief of Britons that because the mission was in Moscow, Russia would join France and Britain-all these went down as the crater opened. Had Hitler struck then he would have had the advantage, as from every capital except Berlin correspondents reported stunned surprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: War or No Munich | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...background of a Japanese print. To Japanese the symmetrical, snow-shawled, 12,395-foot-high cone is sacred. They call it "Mr. Fuji," and climb it in droves, usually starting at sundown and taking about twelve hours. Seeing dawn from the rim of Fuji's long-dead crater is considered a sort of virtuously ecstatic act, like seeing a vision. Last week 13 disabled Japanese war veterans declared their intention of "demonstrating national spirit" by stumping up Mr. Fuji on their honorable peg legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Mr. Fuji | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...ironical novel which deftly suggests the case of modern Germany, less deftly suggests comparison with the historical novels of Robert Graves (I, Claudius, et al). Spartacus' inspired strategy tied his professional opponents in knots. When bald-pated Clodius Glaber's army penned the rebels up in the crater of Vesuvius, Spartacus lowered his men by ropes over the sheer rock face of the mountain's far side, then wiped out the Roman camp in a night attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Utopia Under Arms | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Declared Dead. New York Supreme Court Justice Joseph Force Crater, Tammanyite, missing since Aug. 6, 1930; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 19, 1939 | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...Alaska's most spectacular volcanic display in more than a decade, the crater vomited flame to a height of 1,500 feet, acrid smoke and hot ash to a distance of five or six miles. The smoke pall was so thick in Perryville that lamps had to be lighted in the daytime. The earth rumbled ceaselessly. Coast Guard commanders in the Bering Sea reported ashes falling 35 miles from the mountain, volcanic dust 100 miles away. In Unalaska, 350 miles from the volcano, chandeliers shook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mountain of Fire | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

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