Word: europeans
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...Chinese Communists who tried to harass Nanking from the hinterland were turned by Generalissimo Chiang into an excuse for not fighting the Japanese. He used them as a football coach uses a scrub team to train the regular army of New China-the first Chinese War Machine, complete with European artillery, German military advisers, U. S. and Italian war planes...
Czechoslovakia last week received in her hospitable arms French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos on the last leg of his 17-day jaunt to Poland, Rumania, Yugoslavia (TIME, Dec. 13 et seq.), undertaken to strengthen French friendship with her mid-European allies. While bound for Prague, the French diplomat, ardent League of Nations supporter, received a neat kick in the pants from the crafty Yugoslav Premier, paunchy Milan Stoyadinovich, whom he had just visited for three days. Although Yugoslav officials had issued a carefully worded communique during the Delbos visit admitting in lukewarm terms that Yugoslavia is still a member...
...flying in the old world have almost the right to ask that their comrades in the new world should, during these years of exceptional and not diminishing danger, set an example of strength and stability. There is one way above all others in which the United States can aid European democracies. Let her regain and maintain her normal prosperity...
...Members of families migrating from Europe to reside in America become some-what modified and in one or two generations, differ from their European, cousins in much greater ways than occur among those members residing in the same country. These differences are probably due to modified reactions of the endocrine glands which act to adapt our internal environments to the changed external conditions of climate and food. Such mechanisms are our means of adaptation in maintaining a normally balanced internal chemistry. Different climatic, meteorological, light and other effects on one's own personal well being and activities may often...
...Borrow or Steal (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Frank Morgan, as a "steerer" of European tourists, poses as proprietor of a chateau in order to provide for his visiting daughter, Florence Rice. The dialog is wittier and the characters better rounded than usual in this type of program-filler...