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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warmly approved John Lewis' cry: "War will not come because the Congress may juggle the words in the Neutrality Act. War for America will come only as a result of developing circumstances which convince the American people that there is no other alternative. If this be true . . . it is then futile and absurd for the Congress . . . and the population of the entire country to become confused and convulsed in a discussion of the varying definitions of actual and assumed neutrality. . . . No other citizen has knowledge which equals the President's knowledge of the facts which concern . . . peace...
...busied himself in Paris trying to get established a legal, provisional CzechoSlovak Government, told the Anglo-U. S. Press Club : "I believe that out of the turmoil of Europe will come a better society . . . a new moral and political renaissance, which naturally will take a very long time . . . will result in the restoration of Czecho-Slovakia." Last week, Dr. Benes broadcast from London, hoping to be heard by Czechs and Slovaks: "Today the retreat from the tyranny of Naziism is ended! Your place, (Czechoslovak citizen, is today in the front line. . . . The Allied aircraft will often appear over your towns...
...that the two do not necessarily mix. But the unseemly haste with which the evacuation began suggested that here was a complicating detail of his new policy which the Führer had overlooked until the last minute, and that, far from being planned, the transfer was the result of pure immediate necessity. Germany has long considered the Baltic a "German lake." Friendship with Joseph Stalin evidently comes high...
...Last week, at a by-election in Glasgow, this idyllic state of affairs was impaired when Pacifist Andrew Stewart entered the race independently on a "Stop the War" platform against Laborite Arthur Woodburn, who supported the war. True to their pledge, the Conservatives did not put up a candidate. Result: Candidate Woodburn, 15,645; Candidate Stewart, 1,060. Candidate Stewart's comment: "The people are quite...
...Herbert Weinstock's Men of Music, was deliberately modeled on a previous success,Thomas Craven's Men of Art. To write it, the publishers hired no established bigwig of professional music criticism, but a couple of relative unknowns, one a member of their own editorial staff. Result: Men of Music avoids the pious saws and muddy technical jargon of conventional musical biography, describes racily and well the flights and foibles of those posey, neurotic, childlike, hardheaded geniuses who wrote the world's great symphonies and operas...