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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Poland collapsed in late September, fleeing Polish forces took over the Rumanian border some 48 airplanes, 800 military trucks. This sizable lot of equipment was promptly confiscated by the Rumanian Government. By last week four nations were quarreling over the spoils, as duns were submitted to the perplexed Rumanians...
...millenniums and a quarter later, last week, Adolf Hitler's newspaper Völkischer Beobachter drew a fanciful parallel: Joseph Stalin with Alexander the Great. No two men could be less alike. Alexander loved gaud and baubles; Stalin likes big boots and old brown tunics. Vain Alexander refused to grow a beard on the specious grounds that it would afford a handle which an opponent in war might grasp; diffident Stalin wears huge mustachios to make himself look more inscrutable. Alexander was imaginative, athletic, quick as an ocelot; Stalin is practical, ponderous, deliberate as a bear. Only similarity: Diogenes...
Russia's Joseph Stalin began his invasion last fortnight with these advantages reversed. Instead of a disgruntled ruling class, he faced a nation which, almost to the man, hates the Russians as bloody oppressors.* And instead of clear weather and frozen lakes, Joe Stalin's forces found themselves fighting in a blinding blizzard, which grounded aviation, smashed tanks against half-concealed boulders and granite tank barriers, and gave to the Finns, who fight guerrilla-style in small units, with short, light machine guns and short, razor-edged knives, an almost even break. By the end of the second...
...shocked voice at the British War Office one day last week gasped: "Are you by any chance referring on a public telephone to the fact that a certain well-known personage has left these shores for a certain destination...
...places through ankle-deep mud. As well as with soldiers, he chatted with newsmen, who were permitted to accompany him in rotating groups of five. To oldtime Correspondent Sir Philip Gibbs, he said: "I suppose you feel as I do that this war is a continuation of the last...