Word: southern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been rapidly swallowing Polish territory while describing itself as "neutral." Last week Moscow, in an official declaration to Bucharest, declared that so far as Rumania is concerned Russia will remain "neutral." Many Rumanians believed that the speed with which the U. S. S. R. nipped in and took southern Poland before Germany could do so, thus keeping the Reich from getting a common frontier with Rumania, also nipped what may well have been German Nazi plans for surging into Rumania synchronously with the assassination of Premier Calinescu by Rumanian Fascists...
...words: "Von der Etsch bis an den Belt!" How about that? The Etsch (called Adige by the Italians) is at present and has been for 20 years held by the countrymen of Mussolini, who a few months ago had completed his plans for driving out of the Adige territory (southern Tyrol) everybody who dared speak the German language. And the Belt is held by Denmark,* whose integrity has only a few days ago been formally guaranteed by the Führer. What has become of the traditional German exactness? The song ought to read "from the Brenner to Flensburg...
Today the industry has $332,500,000 of unfilled orders for the U. S. and foreign governments, and good-sized commercial orders. Douglas for example last fortnight got orders totaling $3,000,000 for DC-3s from American Airlines, Chicago & Southern Air Lines, and Braniff Airways, recently sold $3,000,000 worth of big DC-4s to United Air Lines. Lockheed has an order for $180,000 worth of commercial planes for Venezuela-possibly a precursor of other big South American orders...
...virtues of this fairly improbable tale is its suggestion of the beauty of southern Germany and Austria, at a time when these have become areas on a map which is often thoroughly and pointedly blacked. "Ethel Vance" knows her mountains and her Maximilianplatz. In the characters of the Countess and the General she has provided, furthermore, symbols of the old Germany accommodating itself with desperation to the new. In Dr. Ditten's stiff, selfless intellectuality the philosophy of the totalitarian State gets its most precise expression. But the conflict in the mind of this authentic, unhappy young German...
...Southern Sector...