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Dates: during 1930-1939
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RICHARD T. GORE Ithaca, N. Y. Just as falcons will be new and fresh when hunting rifles are forgotten by all save arms collectors...
...there were signs that the Nazi Government had begun to realize and fear the extent to which millions of Europeans are turning to the Allied formula of ending the war not in victory & defeat but by setting up a more-abundant-life European federation into which any German regime save the Nazis would be welcome. This amounts to inviting a revolution by the German people or a coup d'etat at Berlin, and suddenly at Ankara the Nazi hierarchy tried to outbid the Anglo-French formula of peacefully proffered federation by proffering one of its own, with a sword...
Unlike the actual belligerents, The Netherlands with its little policeman's army of 100,000 has not the barest fighting chance of defending itself should its borders be violated. And of all the neutrals save the strong and seagirt U. S., The Netherlands, with the world's third most valuable colonial empire, has the most to lose. Invasion by Germany would be the strongest temptation to Japan to seize the rich Netherlands Indies, and the only force on which Queen Wilhelmina could possibly count to prevent such a grab is the British China Squadron based at Singapore...
...seen going about the capital in his usual haunts -and it was presently rumored that the Fiihrer might decide to enthrone a likely candidate as Emperor and serve under this figurehead as Chancellor-as II Duce serves under Vittorio Emanuele III. Theory of this shift would be to save the faces of Allied statesmen who may want to deal with the Nazi regime but feel they cannot do so unless some disguise-however transparent-is arranged...
...Adams House. A master poet, he takes a poet's license in teaching. His half-year course is labeled "Poetry," but Frost gives himself a wide range. Some of his class find plenty to worry about in such Frost-bites as: "Don't Work - Worry" -or: "I save my scorn for the people who say what everyone else says. If you repeat a thing three times, it isn't true any more." Nobody ever flunks Teacher Frost's "course." "Don't write for A's" says he, "write for keeps, for blood. Writing...