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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...length of time the Russians will obviously cut down on the supplies they have promised to send the Nazis. Adolf Hitler's own Völkischer Beobachter, observed in cold approval of Russia's course: "Strong powers are only forced to exert pressure on the weak when malicious and selfish advisers mislead a weak power to refrain from adjusting its neighborly relations." The whole Nazi press echoed the Berliner Börsen-Zeitung's charge: "It was Britain who first made the Baltic countries, especially Finland, strategically interesting to Russia by introducing foreign tensions. . . . Never trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Reactions to Aggression | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...would be no expression of fear on the part of the chicken." To show up meat eating, he told of how he utterly confounded a woman who argued that one must eat meat to gain strength. Snapped Dr. Pease: "I never before knew why the measly elephant is so weak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

With skating ability as their main asset, the Hoddermen have much to learn about stick-handling. Lacking confidence and weak at passing, they are easily stopped. No one can be sure, however, how they will react to their first active service this evening...

Author: By Peter Dammann, | Title: HOCKEY TEAM OPENS SCHEDULE TONIGHT | 12/9/1939 | See Source »

...long as this destructive nihilism continues, every weak state is in danger of disappearing, and America if she hopes to stay neutral, must steel her mind to see the theatre of war gradually widen over Europe. There is not much the United States can do. She can protest to Russia, declare her a belligerent and an aggressor but very little more. But what is important for us is to try to see the issues more clearly all the time, and maintain neutrality in action even though it is becoming more and more impossible to maintain it in thought. Meanwhile states...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FINLANDIA | 12/1/1939 | See Source »

Humpty France and Dumpty Germany continued sitting on their walls last week. Neither had a great fall and neither required more horses or men. The French did some digging in and dragged up some heavy artillery back of Perl at their supposedly "weak" corner by the Luxembourg frontier, where the right flank of a German assault would be protected by neutral territory. They sent about 1,000 men charging up a hill southwest of Pirmasens beside the Hornbach salient, but the Germans counterattacked and the French, after using planes to strafe their assailants for the first time in this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Information, Please | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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