Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lindbergh in that document will have a chance to compare what he finds in the U. S. with what he found in Germany, Russia, England. His report may be a loudspeaker for Henry Arnold's little heeded pleas to Congress for more research money. It may also hot-spot War Department procurement policies...
...Adolf Hitler last week showed more grimly than ever his determination to press his demands against Poland (see col. 3), the Free City of Danzig, the old Hanseatic town on the Baltic, became Europe's chief danger spot. Danzig is 95% German. It is ruled by Nazis. It is politically (if not economically) free from Polish rule. Students of the Treaty of Versailles have long criticized the detachment of Danzig from Germany at the World War's end and the placing of the city in the Polish customs union. If it is accepted that Austria, the Sudetenland...
...opinion, however, remained about the same as it was before either message or speech: that Adolf Hitler would not be curbed by words. But if he was strictly truthful for once in a public utterance, the world had been given a pretty good idea of where the next trouble spot was situated...
Last March Nazis used a discontented minority of Slovaks to dismember and appropriate Czecho-Slovakia. Today Yugoslavia has one of the worst minority problems in Europe, and last week Yugoslavia, once secured by French friendship and membership in the Little Entente and Balkan Pact, was in a tight spot: the no man's land between the Axis and the British Peace Front. If the Fascist powers can get control of Yugoslavia, they will have taken the first big step to becoming the masters of the Balkans and will be miles further on the road to the British-dominated Near...
...They are the cream of an abnormal crop, and their places on the first six are not absolutely secure at the present time. Elbel had a creditable 77 for his medal in his only Varsity match against Bowdoin, and he definitely has the inside track for the number five spot. Behind him is tall Watty Dickerman, ready to withstand the challenge of Lou Roewer and Bill Calfee...