Word: present
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thank you for telling us (TIME, Oct. 30) what the English poets who were the youth of 1914 are doing under the impact of the new war. Would it be possible to elicit a statement of their present mental attitudes from Sassoon and Graves? They are of the tried troops of both action and thought, at once brave soldiers and honest men. It is appropriate to recall that Sassoon in 1917 made a public protest against the prolongation of the war in the following words...
...dull and darkly melancholy as a three-volume peasant tragedy has been the story of U. S. housing. Many a good citizen, trying to keep awake through a synopsis of the preceding chapters, has found his spirit saddened, his eyes closing, his head nodding. To maintain even its present inadequate housing level, the U. S. needs 525,000 new housing units a year for ten years. Under present conditions, the nation has no chance whatever of reaching this total...
Some weeks ago the Nazi High Command sent, as a handsome present to The Netherlands High Command, 1,500 copies of the official military map of Germany, showing every creek and hillock, every canal and road and bridge. Couple of days later the Nazi High Command hinted delicately to The Netherlands High Command that it would be jolly if this compliment were returned in kind. The Dutch ignored the suggestion. The problem of defending their little country against a German juggernaut is bad enough without showing the drivers precisely where...
...compelling. With the Belgian border fortified against him almost as strongly as the French, the Dutch dike was his weakest target. His objective would not necessarily be the turning of the Allied flank but acquisition of bases for planes and submarines much closer to Great Britain than his present bases, for intensified warfare upon British shipping and the supply line of the British Expeditionary Force in France. With some 200 miles cut from their round trips to English Channel naval bases and industrial centres, Nazi bombers could be given fighter escorts, and fuel would be conserved. Should Britain...
...Only the blind cannot see what charlatans deny-that the present war between the Anglo-French and Germany is waged for colonies and raw materials, domination of sea routes and exploitation of alien peoples. Germany presents her claims for division of the colonial loot of the first imperialist war, now in the hands of the British and French bourgeoisie, who do not intend to loosen their grip on their vast possessions...