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What Adolf Hitler went to Munich to say, and what he almost lost his life saying (see above), was that Germany was now resolved to lick "England," and might take up to five years...
Back in September 1929, when world prosperity still nourished world idealism, that great dreamer Aristide Briand started talking about "The United States of Europe." He even went so far as to send a circular to 26 Governments asking them what they thought about federation. Only three were enthusiastic. Their names are significant: Poland, Czecho-Slovakia, Yugoslavia...
Last week the Finnish delegation to Moscow went home with corns and cool heels on its diplomatic feet from having patiently attended the Soviet Foreign Office, but with considerable pride in its heart in not having yet knuckled under to the U.S.S.R. After four days without so much as seeing either Joseph Stalin or Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov, but having made it clear that there were some things that could not be surrendered, even by the weak to the strong, the delegates left for Helsinki. Negotiations, indefinitely postponed, apparently broke down on Russia's demands for a naval...
...award in Chemistry (deferred from last year) went to Professor Richard Kuhn of Berlin, who isolated Vitamin B 2 (also called lactoflavin or riboflavin). The 1939 award in Chemistry was divided between Professor Adolf Butenandt, also of Berlin, and Professor Leopold Ruzicka of Zurich. Butenandt isolated the male sex hormone, androsterone, and Ruzicka first synthesized it from the fat of sheep's wool...
...years there have been some great doings. In 1859 a band of 100 cadets trooped to Charles Town to witness the hanging of an indiscreet fanatic named John Brown. In 1861 a 37-year-old instructor quit his ten-year job at V. M. I., went off to become Stonewall Jackson, the Great Hope of the South. The school graduated 823 men who became officers in the Confederate Army, ranking from major general to second lieutenant. The entire cadet corps rushed to New Market to help check the Union advance through Shenandoah Valley. Union troops later burned their school buildings...