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Germany would then be on the Channel and nearer to England. The Belgian Maginot Line might be outflanked. If, however, Herr Hitler is thinking of the disadvantages of a Netherlands coup, they would overshadow the advantages. There would be 230 more miles of western frontier to defend. The Belgians have heavily fortified their frontier with The Netherlands, and invasion through The Netherlands to the ultimate goal of France and Paris is a circuitous route to take...
...treatment recommended by Elder Statesman Stimson. He urged the Senators to make the President identify "aggressors," then punish them by embargoes and other economic sanctions. British statesmen of today, well knowing their nation is not soon likely to seem "aggressive" in U. S. eyes, and with trouble much nearer home than Manchuria, rejoiced to read these consistent Stimsonisms, which were delivered with more force and sparkle than Colonel Stimson exhibited while in office...
...birth, her mother separated from her electrical engineer husband, Eddins McMath, and, taking small Ginger, went to Kansas City, where she got a $9-a-week job as typist in Montgomery Ward. Thereafter Ginger's childhood was nomadic. Jobs took her mother all over the country but always nearer the movies. In 1919, Mrs. McMath, by this time divorced, married a Dallas insurance man named John Rogers. In 1922 the family moved to Fort Worth...
...emphasis of his Holmes of the Breakfast-Table is on Holmes as a forerunner of the moderns-the cool-headed doctor who not only wrote a medical classic on puerperal fever, but occasionally, as in Elsie Venner, anticipated Freud; the science popularizer whose Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table came nearer to Darwin than to the Transcendentalists; the author of The Professor, the awkward but potent anti-Calvinist Babbitt...
WASHINGTON--Grave fears over the trend of Central European events brought the Administration's giant rearmament program in step nearer completion today when the Senate Appropriations Committee approved a $512,-188,882 War Department bill for the year beginning July 1, with funds for Army Air Corps expansion...