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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wrote to you just before war began, since when life has been pretty hectic. I was mobilised with my Women's Auxiliary Fire Service on the 1st, and to my horror discovered all arrangements had been changed, and that we had to live at the Fire Station in the most vile discomfort. In fact things got so impossible we all resigned in a body, but improvements were promised and are actually in hand, so that I suppose gradually conditions will improve. The first night I slept on a table, but now on a camp bed & a sleeping...
...session to admit new delegates from the slice of Poland taken by Dictator Stalin, curiosity was rife as to whether Orator Molotov would again, as in 1937, have to make three great efforts before his speech impediment would permit him to utter the most important cry in Russia: "Long live Comrade Sssssss. . . . Long live Comrade Stttttt. . . . Long live Comrade Stalin!" The long-suffering Premier last week had no trouble and in his secondary capacity as Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs made an extremely long and rambling state-of-the-world speech in which he ticked off Turkey, Germany, Great Britain...
Like most of the other 110,000,000 people who live in southeastern Europe, the Rumanians associate the old overlordship of Vienna, the Sultans and the Tsars with their primitive miseries. Hitler and Stalin are just two more potential overlords to them and, as never before, Rumanians cherish their nationalism and independence. When last August King Carol declared: "Our frontiers, traced in blood, cannot be altered without a world cataclysm," he got a resounding amen from his people...
...International Affairs, Carol stuck faithfully by the Little Entente (CzechoSlovakia, Rumania, Yugoslavia) until it collapsed. In the Munich crisis of 1938 he did not hesitate to declare that Rumania would live up to her treaties. His representative at Geneva even began conversations with the Soviet delegate to design ways & means whereby a Russian Army, going to the help of Czecho-Slovakia, could pass through Rumanian territory. Stanch friend of former Czecho-Slovak President Eduard Benes, King Carol turned down cold Polish Foreign Minister Josef Beck's scheme for partitioning the Czech State...
Emulating the industrious ants in preparing for the winter, 15 members of the Harvard Ski team have spent the past two months in constructing, practically unaided, a 30 by 40 foot cabin in which they will be able to live during their outings in the coming snow season...