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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moldavians, Tartars, Ruthenians, Bulgars, Germans and Jews. In 1920, and several times since, the U. S. S. R. demanded that a plebiscite be held in Bessarabia to settle to whom it shall belong, but up to last week Rumania had always nose-thumbed such proposals. In Soviet schoolrooms moppets find in their geography books that Bessarabia has never ceased to belong to Russia and unquestionably J. Stalin has an even heartier appetite for it than he has for gobbling Polish territory...
Ambassador to Germany Sir Nevile Henderson. The reason the 75,000-copy first printing of the British Blue Book, including the reports he sent his Government from Berlin from May 28 to Sept. 1, sold like hot cakes in London last week was therefore not hard to find. He had turned in a world scoop, a still-warm drop of the very blood of history, a terrifying picture of how war is born, some penetrating glimpses of Field Marshal Hermann Goring, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and State Secretary Baron Ernst von Weizsdcker, a modest reflection of Sir Nevile...
Russell Sage's James Laurence Meader (an exception): "England and France . . . have the right to expect every type of service we are capable of rendering short of sending an expeditionary army. . . . [We must come] to their active assistance at once rather than wait until we find it necessary to fight Hitler and all that he stands for single-handed...
...shot a 287 in the Hershey Open, collected $450 fourth-place money. A $450 check for four days on the golf links is no cause for a sneeze-even by a national champion. But Golfer Nelson was not pleased. And with good reason: his caddy's failure to. find a tee shot that had plopped into the rough in the final round had cost him two strokes, thereby done him out of the second-place prize...
...father's posters. When his superiors discovered Tom Woodburn's talent, they added painting to his other duties as Chief of the Recruiting Publicity Bureau. What he says of his own Army experience is a tag he might well use in recruiting: "They soon find out what you're suited...