Word: space
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...encircling Germany: "We are for cooperation, which is just the opposite of encirclement. But each time that we have made a step in this direction the answer has been some act of force. . . . To aggression, to autarchic tyranny, to a fanatic ideology, to unjustified demands for 'vital space,' to all violence and brutality, our answer is 'No'. . . . To all efforts at understanding and loyal collaboration, to all that will aid the recovery of business and an equitable distribution of raw materials, our answer...
...flooded aft was mitigated by the rescue of the 33 survivors. There was no grain of satisfaction for the British public in the Thetis disaster, worst in submarine history. There were just two cold epitaphs. "Chlorine gas fumes," said a British medical authority, "in a confined space like the interior of a submerged submarine, would cause early asphyxiation, immediately preceded by loss of consciousness." And over the spot in the Irish Sea where the submarine rested, there floated a new green buoy on whose side was freshly painted one big white word: WRECK...
Pullman fares (now 3?): to 2.7? for trips over 900 miles; for upper berths (now run empty most of the time) ,2.7? one way, scaling down to 2.43? for round trips over 900 miles; corresponding cuts in the charges for upper berth Pullman space. (The Southern roads which have been operating at cut rates and have found them good, last week filed proposals with ICC for another 10% reduction in round-trip coach fares to a minimum...
...Note--The Crimson does not necessarily endorse opinions expressed in printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer, will names be withheld. Only letters under 400 words can be printed because of space limitations...
...warned that if Germany and Italy try to take advantage of the confusion at present surrounding negotiations for a tribe entente to grab more territory on the "pretense of vital space," France is determined and ready to use force to preven any extension of totalitarian hedgemony...