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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...streets with shouts which this week would have been "Vive la Czechoslovakie! Vive la Guerre!" but these shouts were not heard. The only French political parties whose organs urged war were those of the minuscule extreme Nationalist Right and Communist Left. Joseph Stalin appeared, to the French, to have taken in Russia none of the propaganda measures which would have been necessary last week if the Soviet people were to be asked to fight in case Czechoslovakia were attacked. In the general queasy fear of war (and especially of being bombed) which has gripped so many Europeans, the Scandinavian States...
...been kicked, spat upon and otherwise insulted. Another woman had been shot in the stomach, made a prisoner, and taken to the inn, where we found her." Correspondents found both women in a hospital at Falkenau. Dr. Stoehr, the Sudeten physician in charge, hustled them out while the women called from their beds, "Let us speak to the foreign correspondents...
...take the first of many technical steps which would be necessary to invoke "Sanctions" against Japan, no longer a League member. The step: inviting Japan to take a seat at the Council table. Geneva experts said that, if Japan sends a refusal, more drastic steps could then be taken, but that if Japan simply never sends a reply, this would create a puzzling situation which the Council would then attempt to solve. Afraid Czechoslovakia would ask the Council to take the first Sanctions step toward Germany this week, Poland, a member of the Council, declared that she deemed the sanctions...
...former Chancellor Dr. Heinrich Brüning to shut off the flow of German capital abroad. Dr. Brüning, lecturer in government at Harvard, steers clear of Germany today and recently was reported visiting in London with his old friend, Winston Churchill, but his flight tax was taken over by Adolf Hitler in 1933 and made a good thing when Jews had to flee. In the two years before Hitler the tax brought in but 2,876,000 marks. With the start of the Nazi anti-Jewish drive and the application of the Nürnberg laws, however, receipts...
Such an accident was possible only with Editor Hull's makeshift equipment. Nevertheless, television's green eye, which only last June saw its first suicide, had taken its first notable life...