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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secret session, the House of Commons again did business in public, and good luck sent Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain the British Navy's triumph over the Admiral Graf Spee (see p. 20) to divert public interest from any Government shortcomings in the conduct of the war. Jubilant M. P.s, convinced more than ever that Britain rules the waves and eager to get away for the holidays, gave the Cabinet easy sailing...
...list must be airplanes and artillery, without which Finland cannot hope to win-especially if Coach Stalin sends his first team into the game. More to keep Finland's slate clean than through any hope of success, Foreign Minister Vaino Tanner appealed to Russia's Premier V. M. Molotov by radio (the only medium by which he can address him), offering Russia "even greater concessions...
...propagandist. He insists he is simply the chief of the French Commissariat General de I'Information. Another pet annoyance is to be told that France and Britain are fighting a "phony war," and last week, in a speech of high literary quality before the American Club in Paris, M. Giraudoux set about to correct any such notions held by transatlantic strategists...
Already in this war, said M. Giraudoux, more British sailors and French soldiers have been lost than in those "battles to save the world- Thermopylae and Valmy."* Moreover, "even if it means boring the world to tears," the Allies are not going to bother about giving a "performance packed with box-office appeal for the reading and listening audiences. . . . Our Army is intact and ready, but fighting as we are for the principles of life against the principles of death, we would be contradicting ourselves if we sacrificed a single man to the pageantry...
...movie houses, but no theatre. No road company has played there since 1930. But, thanks to the enterprising Green Room Club of Lancaster's Franklin and Marshall College, the town is not left playless. Under the direction of scholarly, energetic Darrell Larsen, who has coached plays at F. & M. since 1927, undergraduates produce four shows a season, each running a week. From a male student body of 900,300 try out annually for dramatics-many more than go out for football...