Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some 50,000 Chinese remained in Canton, from which hundreds of thousands fled in recent weeks, pitiful refugees. The 1,500 Japanese at latest reports had not run amok as Japanese did after the fall of Nanking, but were described by Associated Press as busy trying to check civilian looters and Chinese who were setting fresh fires. The Canton waterworks were wrecked by Chinese to cripple fire fighting efforts...
During the recent Czechoslovak crisis the British people scared worse than any other in Europe, and in the panic atmosphere of London scared U. S. citizens found in Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy an envoy who flung his dynamic energies without reserve into the job of getting them home as fast as possible. During the panic period Mr. Kennedy was not perhaps quite as close to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain as U. S. Ambassador to France William Christian Bullitt was to Premier Edouard Daladier, but he unquestionably saw the crisis from the inside. Last week he spoke his mind...
Crisis-Proof? From Belgrade, Yugoslavia, the Chicago Daily News's famed Balkan newspundit, M. W. Fodor, who operated in Vienna before the Anschluss, last week flashed: "German planned economics is in essence a form of socialist production and distribution. Up until the recent downfall of Czechoslovakia, the conventional capitalist system of production and distribution was never really seriously challenged outside of Russia. Completion of a successful tour of the Balkans by Dr. Walther Funk . . . signals not only the fact that Germany has finally won the World War, but also that she has delivered the most serious blow the capitalist...
Leahy said that he wished to avoid prosecution of offenders lost the Police Department be accused of persecuting Harvard students in view of recent unpleasantness...
Harvard's two recent all-Americans, quarterback W. Barry Wood '32 and center Benjamin H. Ticknor '31 were invited to address the gathering. Unable to appear in person, however, both the legendary scholar-athlete and the all-time greatest center have sent telegrams which will be read to the meeting...