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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Like Frontier Guards." Berlin papers have for some time called the Polish Government "a farce." Last week the Moscow press picked up a New York Herald Tribune story saying that at Angers "one of the smallest States in the world-probably smaller than any except the State of Vatican City-is being established on an estate one mile long and half a mile wide in the Valley of the Loire." At this Pravda of Moscow jibed: "Two things particularly worry Sikorski: first the absence of a capital city; secondly, the absence of a national minority to oppress. Sikorski is hesitating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Warsaw to Angers | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...while German U-boats were ranging the Atlantic traffic lanes, a gaunt and hawklike Austrian arrived in Manhattan. He spoke no English, but his first act was to make a translated statement to the press: "I hope to please the American public and if I do I shall become a citizen of your country. I do not wish to be known as a Wagnerian conductor, as I love the operas of all nations." Month later, stepping into the Metropolitan's orchestra pit recently vacated by Arturo Toscanini and his bald, black-bearded co-worker Alfred Hertz, Artur Bodanzky shook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Wagnerian Conductor | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Married. Giuseppe Antonio Borgese, 57, exiled former chief of the Italian Press & Propaganda Bureau, University of Chicago professor of Italian literature, author of Goliath: The March of Fascism (TIME, Sept. 27, 1937); and Elizabeth Veronika Mann, 21, youngest daughter of exiled German Author Thomas Mann; he for the second time, she for the first; in Princeton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Believing that a look at the past is worth two at the present, the pacifist Christian Century (nonsectarian weekly) last week began printing a condensation of the best available study of parsons' wartime behavior - Preachers Present Arms, by Sociologist Ray Hamilton Abrams (Round Table Press). When he wrote his book six years ago, Sociologist Abrams was skeptical of clerical calm-downs between wars, pointed out that western civilization possesses "perhaps the greatest war book known to man"-the Bible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Preachers Present | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...morning paper to stare at gaping columns of white space, he shrugs and murmurs philosophically : "Anastasie!" A haggard, black-gowned, crotchety old maid, armed with an immense pair of shears, Anastasie is a characteristic creation of Gallic wit. She personifies the tightlipped, prudish silence clamped on the French press in wartime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Anastasie | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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