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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born in Hungary and educated at the University of Budapest, Raisz received his doctor's degree at Columbia and has been associated with the Department of Geography for a number of years. His maps and illustrations in the University's various publications have made him well known around Cambridge...
...Britain, having last summer invoked the "escalator clause" of the London Treaty allowing her to build above the 35,000-ton limit, plans to start work on the Lion and the Temeraire early in 1939. Both will be "about 40,000 tons" and will mount an undisclosed number of 16-inch guns. These are in addition to five 35,000 tonners already on British ways which will match the heavier Japanese battleships in speed...
Most other world figures of 1938 faded in importance as the year drew to a close. Prime Minister Chamberlain's "peace with honor'' seemed more than ever to have achieved neither. An increasing number of Britons ridiculed his appease-the-dictators policy, believed that nothing save abject surrender could satisfy the dictators' ambitions...
...Russia after 21 years of Soviet rule are the thousands of White refugees who sit at café tables in Paris, their "capital," where they make a living driving taxis, waiting on tables or trading on their tarnished nobility. But last week it was surprisingly revealed that a great number are particular about how they get back...
Still going strong, the latest issue of "Mother" Advocate pays tribute to her 1910 secretary by printing a whole number in his honor. The issue was interesting principally as it showed in what ways the boy Tom Eliot was father to T. S. Eliot, the poet...