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Fultz's training proved invaluable, asSilverstein was able to finish in the 3:30s...
...think it would have been impossible to have a job in public service," said Michelle A. Ganow, another PMI finalist. "But it would have been difficult to make in the low 30s with two years of student loans...
...independence celebrations in protest. Moreover, the ruinous economic impact of World War II on Britain, and--as British writer Patrick French says in his book Liberty or Death: India's Journey to Independence and Division--the gradual collapse of the Raj's bureaucratic hold over India from the mid-'30s onward did as much to bring about freedom as any action of Gandhi's. It is probable, in fact, that Gandhian techniques were not the key determinants of India's arrival at freedom. They gave independence its outward character and were its apparent cause, but darker and deeper historical forces...
After World War I he returned to Palestine, now governed by Britain and--after 1920--designated by the League of Nations as a "National Home" for the Jewish people. He rose to prominence in the growing Zionist-socialist movement. The increasing anti-Semitism in Europe during the 1920s and '30s sent waves of Jewish immigrants into the country. Furious Arab leaders launched a rebellion against the British and a holy war on the Jews. Much earlier than others, Ben-Gurion recognized the depth and rationale of Arab objection to Zionism: he was aware of the tragic nature of a clash...
Congratulations on this issue of all issues! I spent six years in Belgium during the early '30s and witnessed the rise of Nazism there. I recalled and relived so many of the news items you deemed worthy of including. ANDREW BOAS Toronto...