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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mission were too humiliated to know it, they did serve a purpose. Their presence in Rome was the occasion for a realistic suggestion from Tokyo: Japan, Italy, Britain and France ought to repay the bad faith of their erstwhile friends, Germany and Russia, by banding together to end the Hitler-Stalin plot for "Bolshevization of the world." These wooden words were put in the mouth of poor old Puppet-elect Wang Ching-wei, the Chinese ventriloquist for Japanese policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ORIENT: Divine Gale | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...years at Colorado, 20 as its president, he made it the best university between the Middle West and the Pacific Coast. In the process he faced down the Ku Klux Klan and many another foe of academic freedom. Few years ago he frightened his friends by defying Adolf Hitler in his own backyard. As a visiting lecturer in Berlin, he persisted in championing democracy despite brownshirts' warnings. When police stopped him one day at the gates of University of Berlin, he barked: "I'm going in, and what are you going to do about it?" They were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Academic Poverty | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...without being interrupted. From London Major Eliot broadcast six times last week for CBS. Night before war was declared he predicted: 1) "It is impossible for Germany to defeat Poland plus France plus Britain," 2) there would be no immediate bombing of French or British cities, at least until Hitler had had a chance to try for peace after taking what he wants of Poland. At week's end Major Eliot, fearing inevitable censorship of his tactical notions, was seeking Clipper passage to carry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Casualties, Replacements | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

Blonde British Naziphile the Hon. Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, "ideal Nordic woman" friend of A. Hitler, was stranded in Munich beyond closed frontiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 18, 1939 | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

Rufous, rotund Sergeant Alvin C. York, backwoods schoolteacher who became U. S. World War Hero No. 1 by capturing 132 Germans singlehanded, predicted that World War II would be short, set a 30-day time limit before the "great Hitler disappearance" into Holland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 18, 1939 | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

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