Word: frenches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mild protest from a French Canadian. Your excellent account of the election in Quebec (TIME, Nov. 6) is marred by two obvious mistakes. You suggest that the fact that France as well as Britain is in the present war played a part. You are wrong. French Canadians voted to go with the rest of the country, and the rest of the country, as well as the French Canadians, are in this war, not for Britain, nor for France, but for freedom...
...golden era of 1926-29 the first two years saw Crimson defeats 12 to 7 and 14 to 0. Finally in 1928 after five barren years Harvard came into its own, breaking the drought by laterals executed by the Dave Guarnaccia-Art French combine. The year of the Depression saw Albie Booth's strip tease as the "mighty mite" stormed onto the field unsuccessfully to attempt a field goal. Harvard won 10 to 6. Barry Wood and Captain Ben Tickner made it three straight for the Crimson in 1930 with a 13 to 0 victory...
Furthermore, according to McKay, territories which Russia has taken in the Baltic "are little connected with French or British interests: all envisage the eventual German menace." This move will prevent the small northern states from falling into Nazi control "and at the same time give Russia strategic harbors for possible future attacks on vital German wartime supplies coming down the Baltic...
...democratic institutions at stake? McKay points out that "both French and British democracy were revealing signs of weakening before the war began." And then, he asks, "will post-war exhaustion bring, even in victory, some new economic controls and some kind of authoritarian political regime...
What would he the U. S. stand on Poland, Czechoslovakia, on a possible French partition of Germany! "It is just this maddeningly insoluble character of these problems that convinces cynics that peace treaties mark not so much the end of one war as the vestibule to the next...