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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...laugh at morality; but let all men be free to laugh at human posturings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 11, 1939 | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...were the 120,000 soldiers of unpredictable Italy (though Italian armies drew back from the frontiers). French Morocco and Algeria, granaries as well as a source of French manpower (total population of France's African Empire: 41,000,000), were valuable to France in proportion as the Mediterranean remained free to transport. Along the Mediterranean's northern shore the line-up was still more confused. French naval bases at Toulon and Villefranche, guarding French communications with Africa, threatening Italian coastal cities; Italy, with her 105 submarines, Europe's biggest fleet; the Dalmatian coast of Yugoslavia, long wanted by Germany, source...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDITERRANEAN THEATRE: Currents and Eddies | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...only one at the University who could swim Jagellonia Lake. It was in Cracow that he first met Josef Pilsudski, who was organizing rifle clubs throughout Austrian Poland, on the theory that one day his Riflemen's Alliance would form the nucleus of an army to free the land. The two were as disparate as Lincoln and Douglas: Pilsudski, gaunt, one-track, humorous, dynamic, with the gigantic, inspirational mind of a fanatical leader; Smigly-Rydz, graceful, versatile, serious, dull, with a big mind, too, but a professor's logical, inquisitive, with a good memory. But they liked each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: National Glue | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Cuba's tobacco was due for a fall, sugar for a rise. Havana was proposed as a free port, where both sides could pick up the raw materials of death from neutral sellers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Death for Sale | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...Orleans, Ferdinand, 1,000-lb. Jersey bull, pushed halfway through a fence hole, devoured a 100-lb. sack of cornmeal, got stuck. To Ferdinand's rump,' Owner William Lashley, lacking a bee, applied the live terminals of an electric battery, shocked Ferdinand free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Beer | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

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