Word: evens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler began signing agreements, diplomats guessed that there was more to the partnership than at first met the eye. They suspected the existence of secret clauses, annexes, even verbal understandings that were not made public. They were right. As events began to unravel, and perhaps as Dictator Stalin got unexpectedly grabby, he got a big slice of Poland. Not long thereafter the Eastern Baltic States (Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and perhaps Finland) became an uncontested sphere of Red imperialism. All told, Herr Hitler had won Russian "friendship," but it looked as though, so far, Tovarish Stalin...
...Short Notice. Astounding as it was that Adolf Hitler, exponent of Pan-Germanism, should relinquish so lightly one of the oldest European outposts of German commerce and culture, the details of this mass migration were even more amazing. The Balts first learned that they were to be sent back to Germany on a Saturday, when German diplomats first broached the subject to the Latvian, Estonian and Lithuanian Governments. On Sunday a special German Commission to arrange details arrived at Riga. On Friday ten German merchant vessels, the first contingent of 42 specially chartered ships, steamed into Riga Harbor to take...
...Alfred Rosenberg, chief of the Nazi Party's foreign political office and long regarded as the spiritual font of Naziism. The Hitler-Stalin collaboration has ended Baltic-born Dr. Rosenberg's dream of German eastward expansion at the expense of Russia, and the doctor is now rumored even to have lost the Führer's friendship...
...victim Handsome Dan IV. English bulldog mascot of the Yale football team, rallied sharply late last night, and veterinarian Dr. S. Johnes gave the dog an even chance to pull through. Suffering from a serious paralysis of his posterior extremities, Dan was given slight hope in earlier dispatches from New Haven...
...Even more frequent and more dangerous because less obvious, are the subtle misconception and misinterpretation of specific ideas arising from hasty, careless, and arbitrary compression in these notes," the History I staff warned...