Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After Munich, Ruthenia, easternmost district of Czecho-Slovakia, now called the Carpatho-Ukraine, became an "autonomous" region with only loose connections with Prague but with very definite though unofficial links with Berlin. Mountainous and largely barren, the Carpatho-Ukraine was obviously expected to produce for Germany political rather than economic results. The Nazis' Ukrainian blueprints nominated it as the generating centre for a movement to "liberate" all Ukrainians from their present Polish, Rumanian and Russian masters and bring them under the benevolent protection of Führer Hitler...
...hrer Hitler's plans are White Russians who fled from Russia when the Bolsheviks came to power. Herr Hitler would certainly prefer to see Russians fight Russians rather than spill good Nazi blood in his Ukrainian "liberation campaign." Estimated to be 400,000 strong, the White Russians, though scattered, are numerous enough and sufficiently experienced to be of military and propaganda value. Not a few are now in Berlin, where Unter den Linden cafés have buzzed with their plottings...
...riding in on a wave of prosperity, conservatives took over New Zealand, and though the Labor Party periodically showed its head (there were serious strikes in 1913, 1916, 1921-22), dominated politics and policies for the next 23 years...
...Ireland, though he has no wish to live in it-"I am not one of those sentimental Irishmen who love leprechauns and hobs" -is the country Carroll will go on writing about. The U. S., where at present he is visiting, he would not live in either, but its theatre is the one in the world that excites him. Scotland, though dramatically a cipher, is the place to live -because "its people leave you alone." England, full of "those gentle barbarians so much more dangerous than bloody barbarians," he despises...
With such a bill-of-fare, Dodie Smith has had very little dinner to cook; it all comes, ready to serve, in cans. But she has laid the table beautifully, with the bes, china, the oldest silver and the thinnest glass. And though she goes in pretty heavily for thick white cream sauce, she has favored sauce piquante also, even uses a drop or two of tabasco...