Word: easterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eastern Sidelight...
...least two nations not prepared to leap at each other's throats at the slightest provocation. Further, it means that the Japanese capture of Britain's Chinese and Indian markets have registered strongly on the English mind, and that henceforth the United States and Great Britain will inspect Eastern affairs on an eye-to-eye basis...
After the most successful season in years, the Rifle Club will travel to New London this Saturday to enter the Eastern Intercollegiate Championships...
...being the buffer; and Poland, the one nation of consequence friendly to Germany, is unwilling to sign. Aside from the folly of forfeiting Poland's good will by an agreement which would rule out German aid to an invaded Poland, Germany would have, by the terms of the proposed "Eastern Locarno", to face the prospects of affording passage to French troops through her territory in case of a Russo-Polish disturbance. The German people have already come into contact with French troops (of all colors), and have no desire to renew the acquaintance...
...Locarno, a covenant freely made by the Second Reich under no compulsion whatsoever, presents quite a different problem. The question still holds: against whom is Germany defending herself? As long as the demilitarized Rhineland existed it was impossible to conceive of France as guilty of designs upon her eastern neighbor. During the last two weeks the situation has admittedly changes; the world-defying stroke of Nazi Germany accomplished that if nothing else...