Word: european
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...publication, Black Star is a photographic and literary agency formed last December by Ernest Mayer, refugee German-Jewish publisher. Black Star handles such foreign writers as Emil Ludwig and Paul Claudel as well as some 50 European, Asian, African photographers. The agency's name was selected in the hope that some day it might be represented merely by a quickly identifiable symbol...
...Sept. 7) was almost too fantastic even to be a trial balloon. But observers know there is no fantasy in assuming that Franklin Roosevelt, having performed miracles in U. S. politics, hopes to round out his claim to a big place in history by participating in world affairs. Any European adventure would bring U. S. isolationists howling about his ears, but U. S. Presidents have a free rein to fool around in the western hemisphere. A Roosevelt Doctrine might succeed the defunct Monroe Doctrine if, on the basis of the Good Neighbor Policy, a great neutral bloc could be created...
Japan had most certainly made a red-hot enemy of the Reds of Russia last week, and European observers were inclined to think that intuitive Adolf Hitler had in this deal outsmarted the Imperial Government of the Son of Heaven. Japan already has bitten off in China all she can effectively chew, and only last week the Soviet Union finally completed their duplicate "behind the mountains'' strategic railway paralleling the Trans-Siberian and permitting Russia more effectively than ever before to fight Japan...
...Bolshevik leaders once the Russian people knew Dictator Stalin had been unable to hold Leningrad. "The Cradle of the Communist Dictatorship." and such parts of the Baltic regions and the Ukraine as would fall to an even moderately successful German drive. A preliminary Nazi move, much mooted today in European military circles, would be to attempt to nip off the small, German-speaking western tip of Czechoslovakia "restoring it to the Fatherland...
Into the Kremlin's gleaming white Hall of Soviets, where the Throne of Tsar Nicholas II has been replaced by a statue of Nikolai Lenin, crowded happily last week 2,500 Soviet Congressmen & Congresswomen from every part of European & Asiatic Russia. On the stroke of 5 p. m. a big-boned Asiatic in an unadorned Army tunic entered. Up leaped the 2,500 to cheer Joseph Stalin uproariously for 30 minutes and again at every pause during a two-hour speech in which the Dictator presented for ratification Russia's much discussed new Constitution (TIME, June...