Word: englander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Balkans have been characterized by their propensity for rapid and explosive political change, by their archaic society, which has kept the land largely primitively agricultural and industrially undeveloped. The 310,000 square miles of Balkan territory are naturally rich. Economically this territory is important to both Germany and England because it is a source of raw materials and a market for manufactured products. Politically it is no less important. Germany would like to control it because it is the stile across the Fiihrer's push to the East. Britain would like to check German control of it because...
...something less than generous. Each refugee was permitted to take along only one mark (40?) and a rucksack of clothes. Everything of value, including cameras and jewelry, was stripped from them by German frontier guards. At the Hook they were hustled aboard a cross-channel steamer, transported to Harwich, England, where they will be housed in an unused holiday camp until permanent homes are provided...
...Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports of Harvard University has voted the award of Major H's to the members and manager of the Varsity soccer team which was undefeated through its last season and won the New England Intercollegiate Soccer League Championship. The award is a major black H with a crimson border to be worn on a white sweater...
Just before England Expects Every American To Do His Duty was published in England, the English Speaking Union called a private meeting which began with a discussion of the book, developed into an argument about Anthony Eden's looks. Rothermere papers printed Mr. Howe's picture, an alarmed, defensive expression on his features, captioned "Does Grave Disservice to Peace." When With Malice Toward Some came along, English readers observed gravely that it was a pity Margaret Halsey had not met the right people. But with the publication of The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, it looked...
Showing how the Harvard Student Council differs from organizations of the same name at other colleges, Richard B. Sullivan '39, president of the Student Council, addressed the New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools in Boston Saturday...