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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shores. Last week as fighting began the Mediterranean again took its place as a decisive theatre of war. Unlike the Baltic, where Germans and Poles clashed headon, where battle-lines and objectives were clear, the Mediterranean was a maze of variables. It was crisscrossed with conflicting currents that ran ever more strongly; it was marked with eddies and backwaters set up by the rush of opposing interests. Along its southern shore Egypt's Army of 22,500 was mobilized, but also, in Libya, were the 120,000 soldiers of unpredictable Italy (though Italian armies drew back from the frontiers). French...
...designation Strong Man. Although it fits him as ill as the style Athlete would fit Adolf Hitler, it stuck. Perhaps his profile (with an army hat on, for he has little forehead and no hair) accounts for it, perhaps pressagentry. Whatever the reason, he is the gentlest Strong Man ever to make thrones totter. An orphan at nine, he grew up to love painting, history, philosophy, went to Cracow to study them. On the side he acted beautifully in amateur theatricals. He distinguished himself as an athlete, but was no bonecrusher; fenced gracefully, played keen tennis, rode like an Arab...
...Holy, and bloody, wars have been fought before: Crusades, the Japanese against Communism, the Spanish Catholic Church against Communism. But this war was being fought, as no war had ever been fought before, to keep a country together against the black forces of paganism. And it was up to 4,000,000 men aided by the indirect action of some Allies, to do the job. "The Army," said Edward Smigly-Rydz once, "is the national glue...
After the Nazi-Communist pact had brought together the Church's two bitterest enemies, diplomatic activity in the Vatican became more intense than ever. It kept right on after war came. Pius XII recalled his vacationing Secretary of State, Luigi Cardinal Maglione. Together they composed last minute appeals, conferred with ambassadors to the Holy...
...August 1914, as German troops were slogging through Belgium, the eyes of the sport world focused for a moment on a tennis court at Forest Hills, N. Y. There, in what was probably the most dramatic tennis match ever played, Australasian Tennists Norman Brookes and Anthony Wilding, on the eve of joining their British regiments, captured the Davis Cup from U. S. Tennists R. Norris Williams, Maurice McLoughlin and Tom Bundy...