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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From dawn until dusk 200,000 tank troops and motorized infantry poured across the border, successively occupying Moravská Ostrava, Pilsen, Koblovice. The huge iron works at Vitkovice were taken (according to the official German News Bureau) "so fast that Communist workmen could not carry out their plans to damage the plant...
Startling news, however, was made at last week's Chamber. Most of Britain's real political work is done quietly, across dinner tables and on elephants' backs, by so-called political agents. Until 1929, even the Chamber of Princes met in secret. But last week for the first time, Britain spoke to the princes publicly and sharply at an open meeting of the Chamber...
...than 100,000 of them die. Next year, if they receive prompt and proper medical care, there seems to be no reason for more than 36,000 people to succumb to the suffocating disease that up to now has been the nation's third biggest killer. The official news of this medical triumph came from the Food and Drug Administration, which last week licensed the sale of sulfapyridine...
While Hitler was marching east last week (see p. 16), Central European Correspondent G. E. R. Gedye published in World's Press News (British equivalent of Editor & Publisher) a blistering attack on the English press. After telling how he had to resign from the London Telegraph for criticizing British foreign policy in his book, Betrayal in Central Europe, Correspondent G. E. R. Gedye published in evidence of censorship: "Today one great Conservative newspaper is actually binding its foreign correspondents to write nothing whatever outside its columns without permission." Everybody knew he meant the London Times...
...McBride, Princeton '40, representing the Princetonian; E. A. Ballard II, Yale '40 of the News, and Charles N. Pollak II '40 of the CRIMSON head the undergraduate committee handling the meeting...