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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Versailles Peace Conference. In the turmoil into which Eastern Europe was soon to be plunged, however, the Curzon line raveled. Poland invaded the Ukraine and occupied Kiev. After defeating their other foes the Bolsheviks finally counterattacked, pushed the Poles back almost to Warsaw. Polish emissaries at London screamed for help, but Prime Minister David Lloyd George, never before or since too fond of the Poles, reminded them that they were the original aggressors and turned a deaf ear. Finally the French agreed to help, the Russians were routed, and in the Treaty of Riga ending the conflict, Poland extended...
...question of what was now to become of Communists whom Baltic States had jailed, Bolshevist No. i answered: "What you do with your own Communists is your own business. They are Trotskyists anyhow. If you must, shoot them, and if you can't handle them, I'll help you." > Once Dictator Stalin remarked: "You know, Communism has not worked here so well either...
Much of the credit for Harold Ickes' book goes to able Historian Dr. Saul K. Padover, who assembled the facts, earns thanks in the preface for "research . . . wise counsel . . . help." America's House of Lords on eight occasions quotes TIME as its authority. But, said Harold Ickes of TIME lately: "I never read the Goddamned thing...
Last week U. S. powermen were frantically looking for plants with spare capacity to help out others whose capacities had already been overtaxed. They had already begun to give impressive orders for new equipment : $70,000,000 ordered since the war began. They were drafting specifications for perhaps as much as another $100,000,000, to be ordered before the end of the year...
This book is a sequel to The Sword in the Stone, shows faintbrained, sweet-natured King Arthur confronted with the first problems of his position: how, with horn-rimmed Merlyn's help, to defeat rebellious kings; how to enlist Might in the cause of Right. Half-fantasy, half-burlesque, like its predecessor it mixes wisecracks and Morte d'Arthur, scrambles legend and topical satire. While her husband King Lot is away fighting Arthur, Queen Morgause, comic symbol of the egocentric wife, attempts the seduction of lovesick King Pellinore (3.2 Don Quixote) and Sir Grummore Grummursum (Sancho Panza...