Word: lande
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British, Germans-seasoned survivors of World War I as well as fresh-faced fodder for World War II- suffered painful, personal wounds or death along the Perl-to-Lauterbourg front last week. So did hundreds of pigs which the French Infantry drove before them to locate and detonate concealed land mines. Yet B. Mussolini was not unduly cynical when he said: "Europe is not yet actually at war. The masses of the armies have not yet clashed...
...Army, brought 100,000 portraits of Stalin, Lenin and Marx, tons of "educational leaflets." In each town and village, soviet municipal rule was set up under councils of men and women of the proletariat. Thus at Barszczewo the new town soviet is made up of peasants owning no land, factory workers and an impecunious carpenter. Most of the new Soviets in what is now Russian Poland promptly dispatched "greetings to Our Liberator, Joseph Stalin...
...naval engagement in the area. So the "Second Battle of Jutland" remained a mystery. But it revived talk that perhaps some day soon the British would try to force their way into the Baltic, to cut off Germany's seaborne supplies from Scandinavia and Russia, perhaps to land troops on Germany's northern coast...
...They were offered as an alternative to the Dardanelles Campaign for attacking Germany from the rear. They were drafted by John Arbuthnot, Admiral Baron Fisher of Kilverstone who proposed a fleet of 612 shallow-draft boats, mostly transports, which would transit the Baltic approaches at whatever cost and land Russian troops picked up at Riga, on the Pomeranian Coast. The transports' passage around Denmark would be protected by the British Fleet's engaging the German Fleet...
Throughout the land, college and university presidents, beginning the fall term last week, generally preached neutrality to their students, pleaded for academic calm. Most militantly neutral, but by no means calm, was University of Rochester's young President Alan Valentine (onetime Rhodes scholar). Dr. Valentine wired to Republican Senators a demand that the Neutrality Act be let alone, went on the radio to read to the People a letter to President Roosevelt. Cried he: "Mr. President, is it to be peace...