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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poland a cut in a Nazi dismemberment of the Soviet Union. Although no written agreement resulted from the Potemkin visit, Polish-Russian affairs were left friendlier than they had been in many a year. With the breakdown of a Polish-German commercial agreement expected, Polish-Soviet trade will probably grow. While Poles were still suspicious of aid from Red Russia, a few German bombs falling on Warsaw could reasonably be expected to make them change their minds and welcome all the guns and warplanes they could get, from anywhere they could get them...
...Senator Gerald("Munitions") Nye last week lectured the Senate on propaganda,suggesting that plenty of it was afoot today as in 1914-17 to draw theU. S. abroad. Said he: '"We cannot escape part in it if war comes to Europe.' Why does this thought persist and grow . . .? Norway, Sweden,Denmark, Holland, Switzerland and Spain stayed out of the last war. There were 55,000,000 people living in democracies at the very door of the war in Europe. If they could stay out . . . why must we even lend ourselves to the thought that we cannot stay...
...British Admiralty is likely to grow grey-haired over the immediate possibility of Adolf Hitler's small Navy overtaking the over-sized British Navy. The denunciation of the Polish Treaty, however, was far more serious. Herr Hitler disclosed that he had "proposed" to Poland that the Free City of Danzig, now under the League of Nations and the Polish customs union, be returned as a free state to the Reich and that Poland cede Germany a road and a railway right-of-way through the Polish Corridor. In return, Germany promised to recognize Polish economic rights in Danzig, assure...
...children are afraid of the night; when they grow up, they are still afraid, but more afraid of admitting it. In this frightening darkness men lie down to sleep and dream. Generations of diviners, black magicians, fortune tellers and poets have made night and dreams their province, interpreting the troubled images that float through men's sleeping minds as omens of good & evil. Only of late have psychologists asserted that dreams tell nothing about men's future, much about their hidden or forgotten past. In dreams, this past floats, usually uncensored and distorted, to the surface of their...
Readers who like plain-spoken words may grow impatient, but lovers of words for themselves will find in Finnegans Wake some lyric passages to make them...