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...unhappy, Dale made few friends, immersed himself in the study of difficult languages-Assyrian, Catalan, Hungarian. For relaxation, he joined the Verein Turmwächter (Harvard's German Club), became its treasurer. With fellow club members, he spoke German, drank beer, sang German songs, heard German speakers, discussed German culture. For all their Germanic carousing, his companions remained good democrats. But they soon began to discern in Dale Maple a growing admiration for Adolf Hitler, and for Nazi "efficiency." Dale took perverse pleasure in shocking his associates by singing the Horst Wessel song and Deutschland Uber Alles. When pink...
...five days the bounding warrior reviewed his troops along the Po. He stood on platforms, in automobiles, on hills. He reviewed veterans and boys who had been trained from the age of six. He showed Italy's might before the German, Japanese and Spanish Ambassadors, the Hungarian, Bulgarian and Rumanian Ministers. He made no speeches, just shouted over and over: "We are ready...
Three years ago, at his home in Santa Monica, Calif., Cartoonist Segar began to ail, died ten months later at the age of 43. King Features finally found a young Hungarian artist, Bela Zaboly, to draw the strip. Zaboly's Popeye no longer goes to sea on long, fantastic voyages of discovery. But Popeye has more customers than ever before: over 500 daily, 200 Sunday papers...
With Hungary largely under German domination Hitler might be able to launch an attack on the Ukraine from the new Hungarian frontier which lies in the passes of the Carpathians. From there his Army would have a downhill run to the plains. With a friendly totalitarian government in Rumania he might be able to launch his attack on the plains themselves...
...dictators may be friends but their deals are of a kind the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission would approve-at arm's length. Not only because of Hitler's stronger army did Mussolini have to yield dominance of the Hungarian Plain to Germany. The Dinaric Alps which cut off that plain from the Adriatic Sea and Mussolini are not the highest mountains in Europe but some of the most rugged and impassable. The Pindus Mountains in Albania and northern Greece are considerably higher (they include Mt. Olympus, 9,730 ft., with Ossa and Pelion handy for climbing...