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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expected to join Finland in protest. "Moscow's demands on Finland are followed with the greatest interest in Sweden," said Stockholm's Svenska Dagbladet. "If the Soviet thinks she can treat Finland as she has the Baltic countries recently, it will arouse . . . not only Scandinavia but the whole civilized world, and not least of all, the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Stalin Shackles | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...flights continued. Soldiers said they knew it was a war because the cooties were biting. But it looked as if the Allies wanted to stall along with Herr Hitler's peace drive until November, when weather begins to get too severe for extensive, daily air activity. Then a whole winter on the economic front might strengthen the Allies' military position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Not Very Furious | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...rest, sent into the lines again. Never again can a commander who hopes to win a war afford to lose, as the 254th Bavarians lost on November 5, 1918, in the face of the fifth U. S. Army, all but seven of its 1,500 men. The morale of whole divisions, whole armies cracks under such strains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CASUALTIES: 20% Axiom | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...cluster of reporters, "you have seen for yourselves what criminal folly it was to try to defend this city in a military way, and how that defense collapsed after only two days. I only wish certain statesmen in other countries who seem to want to turn the whole of Western Europe into such a shambles as Warsaw could have an opportunity of seeing, as you have, the real meaning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EASTERN THEATRE: This Day Ends a Battle | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins offered full tuition scholarships for study anywhere in the university to the whole 96. Four accepted at once, several others planned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rhodes Scholars | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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