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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...earthquake of 1923. Cardinal requisite of any foreign service diplomat is that he shall be able to write clearly, vividly, movingly. Of the earthquake Nelson Johnson reported: "I found Yokohama in ruins. I left it busy removing the last vestiges of the confused masses of brick, a city of small galvanized iron shops and houses looking for all the world like a crude mining town in Alaska or a boom town of the prairies, and no longer the oriental city of Kipling and the whaler...
...Navy, operating out of Russian and Estonian bases, first seized the four small, unfortified islands-Hogland, Seiskari, Tytär, Lavas-which had figured in Russia's pre-war demands on Finland. Farther west, to protect the vital Aland
...Confiscation of lands belonging to big landowners, without touching the lands and properties of peasants, and transfer of the confiscated land to peasants having no land or possessing small allotments...
...originally censored "inside" story declared that Nazi Exile Otto Strasser was plotting a German revolution in Paris. The other covered a "very interesting development" between a "British political party" (obviously the Conservative) and one of a "small neutral country of northeastern...
Defense Passive. Such general war work as French women have time for, after doing their own, is attended to by thousands of small committees organized in cities and towns, with no coordinating or super-organization. They do a specific job in a specific place, and their general attitude, emphasized by Eve Curie, is "No publicity and no showing off!" In Paris, for example, the war has thrown many musicians and writers out of work. So there is a small committee, Dejeuners de Lettres et de la Musique, one of whose presidents happens to be Mme Lebrun. It serves an ample...