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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The colonial powers scarcely needed this landing, or the newspaper campaign introducing it, to inform them of Japan's ambitions in their spheres of empire. There had been previous signals: the peremptory seizure of Hainan, the occupation of the strategic Spratly Islands, the frank avowal of many a world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE INDIES: Cradle Into Backyard | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Czech Cavells. In London, former Czecho-Slovak President Dr. Eduard Benes predicted that the Prague executions will "play in Czech opinion the same part as the assassination of Nurse Edith Cavell played in English public opinion during the World War." In Washington, the Czecho-Slovak Legation half-staffed its flag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Space for Death | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

But last week, when the annual talks began, there was a new, serious air about them. For one thing, Russia's new Ambassador to Tokyo Constantin Smetanin knew what he was talking about. He used to be a professor of ichthyology. Furthermore, Ambassador Smetanin was appointed to his post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Anti-Pro-Comintern | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

What U. S. college girls are wearing, and how they feel about such a fighting subject as the corset was revealed last week by Manhattan's Women's Wear Daily. Surveyed, and well surveyed, were campus fashions at Smith, Wellesley, Vassar, Sarah Lawrence (see above), Duke, Purdue, Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Calves, Knees, Waists | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Never a formal man, Robert Frost is at his most informal on the Thursday nights when he slouches crosslegged, drawling away for a couple of hours in the shadowy, comfortable Upper Common Room at Harvard's Adams House. A master poet, he takes a poet's license in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Frosty Beer | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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