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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the Hitler-Stalin pact, U. S. fellow travelers have fallen away in droves, but the Communist rank & file has hung on through every swing toward Hitlerism. Pondering these tenacious loyalists, a writer in the pinko Nation last week observed: "Genuinely perturbed by the defections around them, they calmly recite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Only the Steadfast | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

It appeared in the what-kind-of-a-war-is-this? reports from the first batch of correspondents to reach the Westwall (see p. 31). It appeared in accounts of the mighty invasion of the Russian Army into conquered Poland, in which correspondents, ostensibly praising the Army, declared it had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Peace? | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

"Tragic Hour." There was no scorn in the reports of one expression of desire for peace. All week from Rome came stories that the Pope would propose a general conference, hoping to create a Catholic Polish buffer state between godless Russia and pagan Germany. But no proposal came. Instead, at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Peace? | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Greatest Experiment. For better or for worse, so far the British Army and Navy (along with the French) have not undertaken any great decisive action at the front or on the seas (see p. 31). But even if and when they do, even if some great attack should sweep the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: After Boadicea | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Daughter of a diplomat (Charles Charnaud), secretary, wife and widow of a Viceroy of India, Lady Reading explains the knack of getting big and little things done by the motto she has chosen for WVS: FLEXIBILITY. A plastic and gracious personality, she likes to travel (24,000 mi. on a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: After Boadicea | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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