Word: easterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...valley of the Dniester down to Rumania and the Black Sea. Clearly seen last week was the reason why Poland, when Hitler carved Czecho-Slovakia, stood watchful guard over those Carpathian peaks which frown down on the Dniester Valley. When Hungarians rushed in and seized the Carpatho-Ukraine (eastern tip of Czecho-Slovakia), Poles embraced them at their new common border, for Hungary is traditionally Poland's friend. Much depends for Poland on Hungary's continued neutrality, for only by marching around through Hungary, unless he fights through from Cracow to Lwów, can Hitler sever the artery (river, railroad...
...called up. These were more cheerful, going to join their comrades, calculating that their job would be primarily defensive, to hold the most massive system of forts ever built, mostly underground. In two days and nights, Daladier moved between 500,000 and 600,000 troops to France's eastern border from Paris and other cities of the north, to join a million or more already there. All private munitions factories were taken over by the Government, all vacationing employes called back to work...
...attack Poland-then any amateur war-gamer would know what Britain-France must do. Britain-France must destroy Italy. Thus they would deliver a shattering wound to Germany-Italy, become masters of the Mediterranean from end to end and able to bring help to Poland and to the entire Eastern Front...
...quite clear last week that negotiations for the German-Russian Pact began at least six months before June 16, it was equally clear that the Far East figured in the Berlin-Moscow dicker. Here was evidence in silver and steel that Russia had traded Germany a free sphere in Eastern Europe for one in Eastern Asia...
...football team was "Big Three" champion for the second straight year; the soccer team was Eastern Intercollegiate champion; the crows swept the Yale regatta for the second successive year and the varsity crew later won the Grand Challenge Cup in the Henley Royal Regatta at Henley, England...