Word: northern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Those limits: "From the Maas" (the Meuse, which flows through northern France, Belgium and The Netherlands) "to the Memel" (or Niemen, now part of the dividing line between German and Russian Poland...
Last week King George VI sent his thanks for offers of help in the war to the peoples of the Falkland Islands and the Seychelles; to Grenada and the Windward Islands; to the "Council and Chiefs of the Gold Coast, Ashanti and the Northern Territory and to all members of the community"; and to "all sections of European, Asiatic and African communities of His Majesty's subjects in Nyasaland...
...Unless there is a change in the present lineup, it is possible that Japan will have to allocate Northern Manchuria to Russia and limit her expansion, on which is based her dream of a new order in Asia, to South China...
...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...
Forlorn note of cheer: marine underwriters lowered war-risk rates 1% on belligerent flag vessels to and from Europe and on U. S. flag vessels cargoing imports on the northern route; on the southern route, 1½ on belligerent vessels, ½on U. S. ships. Rates both ways for belligerents' vessels had been 7% on the northern route, 7½% on the southern; for U. S. vessels, 2½% on the northern, 2% on the southern. The export rate on U. S. vessels remained unchanged for both routes. The import rate on other neutral flag vessels was held...