Word: easterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week the 18 German divisions that did not march over the eastern frontier of The Netherlands, and the Allied forces and British Fleet which did not pour across her southern and sea frontiers to meet them, were nevertheless still at their jump-off positions. All of which put The Netherlands in World War II's very toughest spot and made Her Majesty Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, Princess of Orange-Nassau and Queen of The Netherlands, the world's most worried Chief of State...
...dragons, hornbills and headhunters, producer of pearls, spices, rare woods, stretches 1,300 miles from North to South, 3,000 from East to West and are inhabited by 60,000,000 brown-bodied souls, not counting some 1,500,000 Asiatics and Europeans. Queen Wilhelmina has never visited her Eastern Empire (although one of New Guinea's highest peaks is named for her), but she can hardly fail to appreciate what a windfall came to her little country the day in 1602 when daring adventurers of the Dutch East India Co. set out on a five-year voyage...
...aims of Joseph Stalin are inscrutable, his route of procedure dark as the labyrinth. Most observers have thought that his Eastern interests could best be served by keeping Japan in a more or less permanent death-clinch with China. But on Russia's West a policy of friendship has lately done great things for Joseph Stalin's ego, area, attitude; and he may well have decided to train grins rather than guns on Japan as well. If he has, the last words of the last chapter of the story of free China were last week being written...
Last week a few lark-notes of new-style Russian music were heard in the U. S.: the overture to an opera, Gulsara, by Reinhold Moritzovich Gliere, veteran Soviet composer and professor at the Moscow Conservatory. No streamlined Eastern orchestra gave it its first U. S. hearing, but the wide-awake, six-year-old Kansas City Philharmonic under cigar-puffing U. S. Conductor Karl Krueger. Conductor Krueger's first cellist, Frank Sykora, onetime pupil of Composer Gliere, had wangled the manuscript out of Russia. An audience of 2,500 Kansas Citizens turned out to hear the overture, and agreed...
...Kremlin may abandon the policy of world revolution for an attempt to regain Russia's prerevolutionary boundaries, or it may try to set up a series of puppet communistic dictatorships in Eastern Europe, Professor Karpovich believes...