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...Soviet union on both flanks. That ink is newly dry on a Japanese-German secret treaty of military alliance is charged in resounding Moscow speeches by owlish Soviet Premier Molotov and that popular eagle of the Red Army, Defense Commissar "Klim" Voroshilov. Since the Soviet Secret Service is definitely keen, Dictator Joseph Stalin anticipated months ago that the Japanese, feeling Germany to be with them, would in time pass from hesitant encroachment and frontier incidents to such undeclared war as came last week. To Moscow the forehanded Dictator recently invited flat-faced, greasy Premier Gendun of Outer Mongolia...
Competition will be keen with many Norwegians entered, but Francis who is probably the best jumper in the college, judging from last year's record, can be counted on to do well, although this is his first competition of the season...
...stage in Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, while in the lobby a box-office attendant drones: "Everything sold for this performance. All standing-room gone." When the hall is hushed, stubby Josef Hofmann ambles into view, his head cocked quizzically to one side, an appraising look in his keen brown eyes. Few notice the piano with its keys cut short to suit the short fingers...
...great credit. Modern international relations are without doubt the most vital, the most absorbing, and the most kaleidoscopic of the factors affecting us today; but to interpret them accurately, and to summarize briefly the vast material is a job requiring great skill, personal experience, and keen intelligence. The fact that many who took Government 30 last year are sitting in on it again is a tribute to Professor Hopper's easy, up-to-date, and always humorous presentation of Asiatic affairs...
...emphasis is on Russia, much of the material being taken from the books he has published on the U.S.S.R. Wide travel and keen personal interest in the problems involved in Russia's offensive expansion to the cast enable him to vivify the difficulties of assimilating under central control peoples who are racially different, and who speak 183 different dialects. Although Russia is emphasized, much attention is given to the "Middle East bloc", to China, and to Japan. Personally convinced that world politics of the next century hinge on Asia, he instills his personal enthusiasm into his audience...