Word: southeasterners
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...though the individual recruits were not surprises, the whole procedure-the sudden formation of a block of ice in southeastern Europe, where before there had just been chilly water-was not pleasant for Britain and her friends to contemplate. The New Order was actually becoming a reality, the Drang nach Osten was dranging. At week's end Bulgaria was maneuvering for its life, Yugoslavia was encircled for all practical purposes, Russia was a not too encouraging enigma, and only Greece and Turkey seemed to have sufficient gumption to resist...
Venezuela, at the southeastern edge of the Caribbean, has a peacetime Army of 6,000, an Air Force of some 30 planes, a Navy of five little gunboats. Colombia's Army numbers 16,000 men, with 400,000 in reserve. She has an Air Force of 90 planes. The Colombian Navy was reorganized in 1934 by retired British officers, now is advised by a U. S. mission, as is the Army. The Navy consists of two new destroyers, three gunboats, three coast-patrol vessels, twelve river gunboats, two transports. Not on the Caribbean, but close enough to the Panama...
...Kulturbolschewik composers still living in southeastern Europe, Bela Bartok, up to now, has shuttled unperturbed across the Atlantic. A Nazi-hater who refuses to speak German any more because "to me it is a dead language," he got out of Europe last month with hardly a change of underwear. While he and Mme. Bartok raced in a bus from Geneva to Lisbon, their baggage got sidetracked and missed the boat. In the music roll under Bela Bartok's arm was the manuscript of his Kitchen Sonata...
...Irish Horse Traders live & trade throughout the southeastern U. S., but hundreds chose to register in Atlanta. Reason: their friend and adviser, Undertaker Ed H. Bond, does business there. The Traders, who used to be one clan of Irish immigrants, have long since intermarried, send their dead to Mr. Bond, have him keep the bodies until April 28 each year. Then they assemble for a mass burial. Last week, day before registration, Mr. Bond received and stored the body of an Irish Trader, "a young man named Carroll," aged 21, from Lula...
...shops and barracks. The airborne Navy visitors looked on the Navy's handi work and found it good. There were a few speeches, the flag was run up, the watch set, the guard posted. An hour later it was another working day for the Navy's southeastern air station...