Word: easterners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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However, the anticlimax is not likely to be so great as it might be because there is some talk of having a post-season race next spring between the Eastern and the Western crews. If this plan should come through it is still apt to be relatively unimportant compared to the projected Olympic trials and in many colleges it will probably not be the climax point of the season, particularly in the case of Harvard and Yale...
...still likely to collide, Professor Hopper believes. "Ever since the Mauchukuo incident in 1931, the Bolsheviks have concentrated their energies on building a defense system in the Far East against the Japanese, involving a railroad parallel to the Trans-Siberian, and industrial self-sufficiency for Russia's Far Eastern territories," he explained...
...like Germany, Russia fears most the necessary of a fight on two fronts. So long as a large part of the Red Army is stationed in the newly acquired territory in Poland, it is unlikely that Russia will bring effective pressure on Japan to round out Soviet Far Eastern positions by taking Mauchukuo...
This time the side door to France, while not so strong as her eastern portals, is doubly locked and bolted. Within France along the Belgian border runs an extension of the Maginot Line, not continuous but strategically clumped. Across the border is a Belgian Army, fully mobilized last week to 300,000 strong (instead of the 42,000 available in 1914). The Belgian fort system at Liége and southeast through Battice and Eupen to Malmédy backed up by another system along the Meuse around Namur, is rebuilt on modern lines and stands behind a frontier fringe...
...Vatican circles" declared that they "deny and resent" such rumors. True it was that austere, saintly Pius XII was shocked and grieved by the destruction of Catholic Poland, whose Primate, Augustus Cardinal Hlond, arrived at the Vatican during the week. The Pope was profoundly apprehensive of the future of eastern Poland, occupied by godless Russians. But, said a Vatican voice, "even if the Pope fasted and performed self-mortification, he would not be the man to flaunt it in public. One should keep in mind his habitual disposition to piety and mortification. . . . But beyond that, it is not permitted...