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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most of us know nothing of history except what goes on during our own lifetime and the Versailles Treaty happens to be the only one we know and hear about. So it does not occur to us that if we blame the present war on the Versailles Treaty we must be logical and go farther back: for that treaty we must blame the Frankfurt Treaty of 1871 which must be blamed on some previous treaty which should be blamed on some other treaty which ought to be blamed on some other treaty which certainly must be blamed on some other...
...have seen nothing of this trouble in our newspapers. Did it occur? Did we have a voluntary censorship in this case, or is German propaganda so unbelievably crude as to broadcast domestic items to us which are untrue and which can be easily checked...
...must have their clothes carefully removed, must be "decontaminated" with soap, clean water and sodium bicarbonate, rubbed with a paste of bleaching powder and water, successful antidote for the oily gas. Then routine tannic-acid treatment follows. Mustard gas can remain on the skin for ten minutes before burns occur; lewisite burns immediately. But treatment for both is the same...
August 23. From Berlin British Ambassador Sir Nevile Henderson flew to Berchtesgaden with a note from Mr. Chamberlain saying: "War between our two peoples would be the greatest calamity that could occur. . . . I cannot see that there is anything in the questions arising between Germany and Poland which could not . . . be resolved without the use of force...
...Mental instability seems to be influenced by the instability of the weather. . . . With the pressure falling and the temperature rising we are afflicted with a feeling of futility." Statistics of cities lying in stormy areas, such as Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis, show that most suicides occur during periods of low barometric pressure...