Word: somes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"Many are tortured by the Gestapo and some have been beaten to death. There are localities in Czecho-Slovakia where half the population is in jail."
Czech Government officials jittered -though the population stayed calm - when Heinrich Himmler, dread chief of all Nazi police, suddenly appeared in Prague. Reasons given for Herr Himmler's visit were several and varied. Some said he was there to clean up the messy shooting at Kladno of a German...
Biggest fish to slip through the Nazi frontier net (in a sealed freight car) was Vojta Benes, brother of ex-President Eduard Benes. Brother Vojta brought some blood-curdling tales from home, where he has been in hiding since Nazis took over.
The Chinese, however, are by turns unbelievably bold and unbelievably ingenious in the ways of sabotaging the would be conqueror. They assassinate puppet officials. Throughout 150,000 square miles of territory in the rear of the Japanese Army they have organized "self-defense" governments. Some 75,000,000 people, almost...
Some months ago the U. S. lent $25,000,000 to the Chinese Universal Trading Corp. to finance Chinese purchases in the U. S. Shortly afterward, Great Britain lent $25,000,000 to the Chinese to stabilize the Chinese dollar. With the Chinese treasury thus bolstered, the Japanese yen, whose...