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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There are various accounts of the origin of this "Where's Elmer?" of the 1880s. One account: Billy Patterson was a rich Baltimorean who was struck by an unknown party in a border-town free-for-all in Georgia, in 1783. He "inquired so hotly as to who struck him that a national saying therefrom crept into existence . . . he left $1,000 to whoever should name the man." Just 100 years later Mrs. Jenny G. Covely of Athol, N. Y. applied for the legacy, said her father (one Tillerton) had done the deed...
Most ominous troop movement was in the Polish Corridor near Danzig, the Free City attached to the Polish customs union but ruled by an all-Nazi government. The Germans of Danzig (about 380,000) have long clamored for a "home in the Reich"; Adolf Hitler has long wanted to oblige. But only last week realistic Josef Beck, the Polish Foreign Minister, who knows that for every inch Poland gives Germany Fuhrer Hitler will take a mile, was reported to have reminded the Reich that his country would consider the seizure of Danzig a casus belli...
...Rumania concedes to Germany free ports on the Danube and Black Sea (something like the foreign concessions in China...
...principal effect in Britain of Herr Hitler's latest aggressions has been to bring the ticklish issue of conscription to the fore. Whereas formerly few politicians would touch the subject with a ten-foot pole, last week it was discussed openly. Another Hitler coup and the last conscription-free nation (except Liechtenstein and Monaco) in Europe may go in for compulsory universal military training...
...French Government is perfectly free to refuse even a discussion of these problems as so far it has done with its too-often reiterated and perhaps categoric 'Nevers.' But will it not regret if the breach presently dividing the two nations becomes so wide that it will be difficult, if not impossible, to heal...