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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Life in London nowadays is not calculated to settle the nerves. If you go into St. James Park to feed the ducks on the lake, you will see holes in the ground-bomb shelters. If you plan to remodel your Victorian house in Chelsea, you must make provision for a steel cellar-bomb shelter. If you go for a spin in your little Vickers monoplane, you must watch for preposterous balloons dangling wires-defense against bombers. If you have a disproportionately long nose, you must be specially fitted for a gas mask...
...Raus (Out With the Jews). Advertised as an "entertaining, instructive and solidly constructed" game, its equipment is a pair of dice, a playing board covered with a map of Europe and Asia, a number of small figures patterned after the odious Jewish caricatures of Julius Streicher's Der Stünner. The players shake the dice in turn, move the Jews across the map by stages determined by the dice. The winner: the first player to get all his Jews out of Germany and into Palestine...
Meanwhile, as fear of Italian trouble enveloped France, it became known that Ally Britain had actually "invaded" it. Deputy Michel Geistdoerfer protested the occupation by the British of the French Minquiers Islands, a group of tiny, rocky islets in the Gulf of St. Malo, halfway between St. Malo and the Isle of Jersey, which have long been used for French lighthouses. Deputy Geistdoerfer said that British "penetration" had been, going on there since 1839 on the basis of a 1360 treaty, and that now the Union Jack was floating over the islands...
Last week while Queen Sonja was winding up a transcontinental personal-appearance tour, which attracted 757,000 spectators and grossed $1,000,000, five little ladies-in-waiting met at St. Paul to see who is the best amateur figure skater in the U. S. Contrary to popular impression derived from the dozens of professional ice-skating shows that have been touring the country, figure skating is neither acrobatics on skates nor dancing on ice. The sport of figure skating has a set of explicit school figures, 41 in number, which must be executed with hairline precision...
Last week, when Correspondent Kluckhohn returned to Mexico City from St. Louis, where his first child had been born, he called on the Department of Publicity and Propaganda for comment on a report that Mexico was trying to sell bartered German goods to other Latin American countries. Mr. Kluckhohn was told to come back in an hour. When he went back, accompanied by a U. P. man who was after the same story, he was told to wait while the U. P. man was called upstairs. When Kluckhohn tired of waiting, he started to leave. Two guards grabbed him, hustled...