Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soviet Union, less friendly to Germany. Last week, in Geneva, while the League of Nations Council held a speedy six-minute meeting in which eight non-controversial reports were adopted prior to the convening this week of the League Assembly, Rumanian and Soviet League delegations allowed the fact to leak out that Commissar Litvinoff and Rumanian Foreign Minister Petrescu-Comnen were discussing the passage of Soviet planes and troops over and through Rumania in case Czechoslovakia is attacked. Great was Prague's satisfaction that Comrade Litvinoff's "will" was finding...
Czechoslovak Communists staged their Prague rally on a tiny island in the Vltava. So many thousands went that people who found no room on the island stood in overflow masses on each bank. In ringing tones No. 1 Czechoslovak Communist Klement Gottwald denounced "Swastika Imperialism!" and quite ignored the fact that Czechoslovak Reds were once sworn foes of the Republic. "We will defend our Republic until the last!" keynoted Comrade Gottwald. "You may all be sure that you will never see the Swastika banner waving above Hradcany Castle...
...characteristic Hitler digression of great length Der Führer passionately insisted that last May the President of Czechoslovakia "lied" in saying Germany had mobilized, making this his reason for a Czech mobilization. The fact that last week Germany was fully mobilized and Czechoslovakia had not mobilized, Orator Hitler ignored, shouting: "Not a single German soldier was mobilized in May! . . . That lie was invented to serve the criminal purposes of one State-Czechoslovakia, which was then ready to plunge the world into war. . . . I declare that the German Government will not tolerate such action for a second time...
...Pete Bostwick (called by visiting Argentine players "Leetle man, beeg bump") at No. 1, blond Argentine Roberto Cavanagh (and his Irish brogue) at No. 2, and Jock Whitney at Back, Tommy Hitchcock had demonstrated this summer that he is still the best poloist in the world, despite the fact that he is playing his 26th season of competitive polo. In Meadow Brook's turquoise-blue stands, filled with 36,000 fans last week, there was many a rooter who had staked Tommy Hitchcock against the field...
Citing few specific facts to support their conclusions, Investigators Henry & Kerwin reported: "The politics with which the schools are beset at the present time are injected . . . just as frequently by school boards as by representatives of the legislative or executive branches of political government. In addition there are instances of tampering with the schools which involves collusion between the school board and a political machine. In fact, there is ground for the contention that an independent school board merely provides two possible sources of political interference instead...