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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Perth, who as Sir Eric Drummond was League Secretary General for 14 years, M. Paul-Boncour has been a believer in making a Four-Power Pact between Britain, Germany, France and Italy as a first step toward "The United States of Europe," proposed at Geneva by France's greatest Man of Peace, the late Aristide Briand (TIME, Sept...
...With the greatest possible reserve, seeing that the Soviet Union is linked in friendship with the French Republic by treaty, last week's Moscow proposals for an anti-Fascist conference were "accepted in principle" by Paul-Boncour. To French journalists he made it unmistakable that Paris will not act in the matter without London, which had already reacted negatively. When Premier Juan Negrin of desperate Leftist Spain went flying to Paris and begged Messrs. Blum & Paul-Boncour for aid last week he was cold-shouldered...
...Spain, Douhet disciples point out, the use by aircraft of poison sprays and bombs (which was decisive in Ethiopia) has virtually not been tried, and this was still true last week as modified Douhet methods suddenly subjected Barcelona, the largest and wealthiest Spanish city and the country's greatest industrial metropolis, to day after day of the heaviest, most destructive, most deadly bombing ever achieved...
...characteristic which will make this book popular among the reading public is the sincerity, wisdom, and quiet humor of the author. The people he talks about are described with the greatest reality, yet they frequently remind the reader of various rustic characters in fiction. But aside from the fictional element, the book contains a wealth of information on disorders of the body and their treatment. These are exact but not pedantically scholarly, so that the reader absorbs a great deal of medical information without realizing...
After the Yale Freshman Meet last May, in which the Crimson first-year men ran away with an 86 to 48 score, Jaakko declared that this was "the greatest Freshman track team Harvard ever had." As Sophomores the Class of 1940 have lived up to predictions, and this year's Varsity may before the end of the spring season be known as a Sophomore team. Of the nine Harvard places in the Quadrangular Meet this winter four were gained by Sophomores...