Word: ended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...national defense loan was floated, and the French Army opened its ranks to foreigners who wish to pledge during peace that they will fight "for the duration of the war." The Premier called a meeting of the Cabinet, which approved "measures to strengthen the action of France and to end any misconception of the firmness of her resolution." Then appeared a very incongruous announcement that Germany and France were about to initial an agreement to increase trade...
Filtering into the Free City by air (Danzig is two hours by commercial plane from Berlin), sea and land were German "tourists," all men between 25 and 40. By week's end the Poles estimated there were 7,000 of them. They were housed in the barracks at Langfuhr, northwest of the city, and soon were observed installing machine guns and building fortifications on the Bischofsberg, the hill to the city's southwest. Moreover, Danzig itself started a local Nazi Heimwehr of some 10,000 men. Authentic reports had it that boatloads of artillery and anti-aircraft...
...week's end General Homma's simple peasants were again stripping Britons who crossed the Settlement boundary as the blockade became tighter than ever. The Japanese, moreover, let it be known that they had no intention of settling the Tientsin problem as an isolated issue and announced that the Tokyo conference would be the occasion for demands for British "cooperation." If the British refuse to reverse their whole policy in China, "the necessary action" will be taken to make "a fundamental solution of the concession issue...
...hoping to meet its total monthly circulation guarantees to advertisers, it began to publish four issues a month instead of two. In June Ken tried again to bolster circulation by cutting its price from 25? to 10? a copy. Last week Messrs. Smart and Gingrich announced Ken's end with the issue of August 3. Editor Gingrich wrote to subscribers: "Rather than to employ inflationary methods, the publishers preferred to admit that 'they backed the wrong horse...
...applied, on grounds of conscience, for exemption from combat service. But fewer than 4,000 went further, demanded exemption from noncombatant duty. Most of these were sent to farms and camps; 486 were sentenced to prison, 17 to death. (But no one was executed; at the war's end all sentences were commuted...