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Dates: during 1930-1939
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CONGRATULATIONS ON "BACKGROUND FOR WAR" IN THE MAY I ISSUE OF TIME. IT IS MAGNIFICENTLY CONCEIVED, MAGNIFICENTLY PRESENTED AND MAGNIFICENTLY WRITTEN. IT MAKES ME ASHAMED OF BELONGING TO THE AGGREGATION OF HUMAN BEINGS NOW ALIVE. I WISH IT WERE POSSIBLE TO CRAM IT DOWN THE THROATS OF EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD DRAWING BREATH TODAY, AND MAKE THEM MEMORIZE IT UNTIL THEY COULD REPEAT IT BACKWARD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 15, 1939 | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

Last month Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare announced in the House of Commons that a close watch was being kept on Nazi doings in Great Britain. The expulsion of two men and a woman, officials of German organizations, soon followed. The Nazis struck back by booting out of Hamburg three British businessmen. Last week six more German agents were ordered to pack their bags. Adolf Hitler's newsorgan, Völkischer Beobachter, fumed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Shabby Treatment | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...bomb hit 60 feet from the Associated Press building. One crashed through the roof of the British Embassy & Consulate. Another fell on the tennis court, killed 20 Chinese. The Canadian-French mission was demolished, the mangled body of a Chinese woman blown 200 yards through the window of Harvardman White's room. A bomb struck the Chungking power station. Chungking's radio went dead, the city's lights went out. The home of the British Vice Consul was struck three times, and fires surrounded the German Embassy & Consulate where, all night, the Consul General and his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Heavenly Dog | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

Central figure appears to be a middle-aged Dubliner of Norwegian descent named H. C. Earwicker, once a postman, a shopkeeper, hotelkeeper, an employe of Guinness' Brewery. He is married to a woman named Maggie, and father of several children, but involved in some way with a girl named Anna. Earwicker has been mixed up in some drunken misdemeanor, his dreams are filled with fears of being caught by the police. He dreams that he is coming out of a pub with his pals; a crowd gathers; one of the revelers sings a song, but it turns into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Night Thoughts | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Owner of the Egoist Press, publisher of The Egoist, Harriet Weaver was a shy little wisp of a woman, terrified by the dramatic manners of the literary great she patronized. She has been called "an authentic but difficult saint." To Joyce she proved an angel. In 1922, to assure him complete peace of mind and concentration on his work, Egoist Weaver gave him a large sum of money outright. Most reliable information puts it at ?40,000 (about $200,000). With this gift Joyce's biography becomes largely a bibliography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Night Thoughts | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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