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Since Adolf Hitler came to full power even the least bellicose nations of Europe have feared for their lives. Alarmed by Herr Hitler's warlike attitude, Switzerland last autumn mined her frontiers, nearly doubled her Army strength. The Netherlands has exiled almost all her gold to safer regions, has completed plans for opening her dikes to flood a large part of the country. In the north countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland, not only have there been increased expenditures for arms, but the four small nations have long been banded together as the Oslo Powers to present...
...their Rise of American Civilization), a condensed but still bulky survey of the last ten years. Into its 977 pages the Beards with evident relish have packed the joltiest jars of the great skid from the boom of 1928 to the gloom of 1939, suggest some new rules for safer driving if the car of state ever climbs back on the road...
Official purpose of the display was to promote an international memorial to Christopher Columbus. In the Dominican Republic, people seldom speak of Trujillo by name. When they discuss their savior, they find it safer to refer to the local equivalent of "Mr. Jones" (as do Benito Mussolini's subjects). But when Senator Green & companions got home last week, it became clear that Trujillo had also done himself a good turn. Mr. Green regaled his acquaintances with accounts of the seven hospitals, the sanitation, the orderly well-being apparent in Ciudad Trujillo. A correspondent of the Washington News who accompanied...
...capable of saving the helpless rest of civilization from accidental suicide, but they have certainly been incredibly listless about doing it. So far, all they have accomplished has been in the line of rallies featuring the clarion call of intellectualism and reiterating that the world will be much safer when it is entirely in their hands...
...criteria being used to judge the applicants are academic quality, personality, need, and danger, Ulich says. The last mentioned is important because of the doubtful legal status of some refugee's admission to this country, and the fact that they would be safer if they could back up immigration visas with a definite prospect of two years' support...