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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Netherlands' case the protest conveyed as much real as dictated anguish, for one Hollander in three derives his livelihood from German trade. Minister Jonkheer Edgar Michïels van Verduyen, for the Dutch, was soon followed to the British Foreign Office by Minister Baron Emile Ernest de Cartier de Marchienne for the Belgians. Denmark protested, Sweden protested, Norway protested-but all of them less vigorously than the two Nazi-prodded neutrals, and Sweden simultaneously complained to Germany about some sea mines laid within her three-mile limit. Italy protested too, but with a mildness explained by the fact that...
...Russia, the Great Powers acted as if a State had been set up in Angers. They sent their diplomatic envoys, including U. S. Ambassador Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., the Philadelphia socialite who was bombed out of Poland with such éclat. He promptly rented the Château de Plessis-Bourre, one of the handsomest in Angers. This 15th-Century pile is officially a historical monument in which there is no electric light, but Mr. and Mrs. Biddle seemed to enjoy groping among romantic shadows in a former residence of King Louis...
...County was promised reinstatement on the A.M.A.'s list sometime around Jan. 1; 3) Surgeon Charles Marshall Davison, son of a former Cook County Hospital surgical chief, warm friend of Dr. Meyer and of A.M.A. propriety as well, was appointed new Cook County director; 4) five medical aides-de-camp were assigned to Dr. Davison. General McCloskey will continue to run only the mechanical departments of the hospital...
...named after St. Anastasia, who had her tongue cut out for resisting the advances of Roman Emperor Valerian), Anastasie was revived by a French satirical weekly, Le Canard Enchaine, when World War II began. She presides over the crowded corridors of the Hotel Continental in the Rue de Castiglione, home of Jean Hippolyte Giraudoux's Ministry of Information...
Secretary, chauffeur, and unofficial aide-de-camp for a general in the French Foreign Legion is the present occupation of John C. Baker '42, according to the latest letter from him to a friend at Harvard...