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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: TIME [MARCH 30] CITES KDKA OFF AIR FOR AN HOUR DURING RECENT FLOOD ACCOUNT POWER FAILURE. THIS STATEMENT IN ERROR. WITH EXCEPTION OF ONE 15-SECOND POWER FLUCTUATION, KDKA WAS NOT OFF AIR DUE TO LOSS OF POWER OR ANY OTHER REASON DURING FLOOD PERIOD. THIS MAY BE CONFIRMED BY WEST PENN POWER COMPANY AND OUR RECORDS. DWIGHT A. MYER Operations Manager KDKA Pittsburgh...
...strict interpretation of the Treaty of Ghent upholds the contention of the Andrew Jackson society that "Old Hickory's" victory on Jan. 8, 1815 at New Orleans, fell within the period of hostilities. But a strict interpretation of the Treaty also indicates that a British victory at New Orleans would have been nullified since signatories agreed to restore conquered territory...
...middle of the official field, the Locarno Powers, by means of a British White Paper, had stated the terms on which they would settle the issue of Germany's treaty rupture: 1) occupation of a strip of the Rhineland frontier by British and Italian troops during the period of negotiation; 2) cessation of all German military activities in the Rhineland; 3) adjudication by the World Court of the German charge that the Franco-Soviet mutual assistance treaty violates the Locarno Pact; 4) an international conference for peace. France called these proposals an ultimatum. Britain described them as merely proposals...
...oratorical armistice" was thereupon declared for all Germany. Into the silence came bad news. The British had decided to fulfill their legal duty under the Locarno Pact, to engage in military staff conversations with France and Belgium to prepare for possible "unprovoked aggression'' against them during the period of negotiation. True, Foreign Minister Eden had told Ambassador von Ribbentrop that these talks were not to be directed against Germany. Nevertheless the British Cabinet was scheduled to meet in two days to decide when and where to hold them. Suddenly the Wilhelmstrasse had an extraordinary case of jitters...
...proposed instead a four-month period for the "atmosphere to calm," during which Germany and its "equals," France and Belgium, all promise to send no more troops to the border, the stalemate to be policed by a commission of one Briton, one Italian and one neutral. During the succeeding period of negotiation, Germany will demilitarize back from the border mile for mile with France and Belgium, will make a 25-year non-aggression pact with both, will discuss a mutual assistance pact, an air pact and non-aggression pacts with Poland, Lithuania, Czechoslovakia and Austria...