Word: european
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prepare in advance since there will be no period of grace next time, when war may be carried to the U. S. Said he: "Calling attention to these facts does not remotely intimate that the Congress or the President have any thought of taking part in another war on European soil. . . . Every American knows that we have no thought of aggression...
...French might unseal the Spanish frontier and allow military equipment to pour into Catalonia, as it poured in during the last big Franco offensive last March. Such an action would, of course, anger Dictator Mussolini (see p. 18), would be just the ingredient needed to produce a first-class European crisis...
Most likely spot for a new Eastern European crisis-which many Europeans expect in the spring-is the Polish Ukraine. A good start has already been made toward developing the crisis-a series of border incidents. It is possible that Poland will some day become provoked enough to strike back hard. Then Führer Hitler would probably bluntly announce that he is responsible for the integrity of the Ruthenian borders. France would be reminded of the Polish-French Alliance and Soviet Russia, fearful of what might happen later to her own Ukraine, might be inclined to urge Polish resistance...
...guns, would burst out, and Poland would suddenly be faced with the alternative of surrender or war. If Poland (plus France and Russia) went to war with Germany, there is at least a 50-50 chance that Germany would win. Britain, having shown little interest in any further Eastern European developments, might choose to sit this war out with Italy. The Balkans might sit it out with Hungary, which is being Nazified as fast as Hitler can do it. Hitler's Push to the East thus has a pretty good chance of pushing...
Divorced. Charles A. Levine, 41, fabulous Brooklyn junk dealer who accompanied Clarence Chamberlin on his 1937 European flight as the first transatlantic airplane passenger; by his second wife, Delia Doris Levine; in Reno. Grounds: cruelty. For more than a year Levine has been in Northeastern Federal Penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa., serving a two-year sentence for smuggling tungsten into...