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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opportunity to discuss revision of the Treaty of Lausanne. He explained that his action was motivated by "recent events, particularly because Germany militarily reoccupied the demilitarized Rhineland, which show that the guarantees to Turkey under the 1923 Convention demilitarizing the Dardanelles run the risk of being slow and difficult to apply." In other words, if the onetime Allies could not force Germany to keep the Rhineland demilitarized, how could they be expected to keep the Dardanelles safe against a surprise attack by, say, Italy...
...must find out whom and what we are fighting. We must discover our friends and joining with them be justified in doing anything to make war difficult." For "our enemies are active and lie everywhere in ambush...
...Yesterday the entire boat was jumping the stroke a fraction of a second. Even Chace's competence at stroke failed to prevent a certain amount of splashing and rushing in the informal race. Added to this is the fact that at the pull through, balance is disturbed, making recovery difficult, by the tendency of the shell as a whole to swing with the oar, leaning out of the vertical. If these faults can be eradicated before the race, Whiteside will have good crew, but not by any means to judge from present appearances, a remarkable...
...action seems to center about the infant Peter and since the management has requested that the child's secret be kept from an eager public it is rather difficult to say much about the plot. Finessing the harrowing details this column will consider its duty done when it announces that the story is long in telling, poorly paced and so skillfully constructed that the climax comes at the end of the first act, thus making the ensuing two acts dependent upon the customary dramatic devices such as inexplicable flashes of lightning and a series of unexpected entrances. The most interesting...
Jack Reed was born (1887) into the provincial aristocracy of Portland, Ore. At his Episcopalian christening his sponsors gave him the name of John Silas Reed. He grew up to be a gangling, delicate boy, good at swimming, headstrong and difficult in class. "Defiance was not a principle with him; it was an instinct." His family sent him east to school, then to Harvard. Reed soon became a well-known but not a popular member of his class. Fiercely ambitious, fiercely sensitive, he was regarded as pushing and unsound...