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...Crimson this morning is printed an impressive letter of "The Young Men of Harvard from Some of the Older Men of Harvard." It is signed by thirty-five members of the Class of 1917, most of whom fought in the World War. the letter will command the respect of every undergraduate, if only for the deep feeling that is clearly to be seen in it. These man have read the petition recently circulated at Harvard, voicing "determination never, under any circumstances, to follow in the footsteps of the students of 1917." In answer they have passionately affirmed something few would...
...arranged constituted the burden of Germany's bill of particulars last week against Belgium. Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop extended the accusation to include spying by Belgians to help Britain and France mount an offensive against the Reich's industrial heart in the Rhineland. The German High Command protested that Belgium's fortresses and military obstacles were all directed against Germany, none against France; that 14 out of 21 Belgian divisions mobilized last October were stationed in the east; that "this one-sided deployment" was not changed when Britain and France massed troops along Belgium's south...
...Adolf Hitler struck savagely at the Low Countries (see p. 22). Desperately Mr. Chamberlain appealed to Laborites Attlee and Arthur Greenwood and to Liberal Leader Sir Archibald Sinclair to join a National Government. But both Labor and Liberals were firm. Labor, with its 164 votes, though it could not command a majority, could write its own ticket with all Britain demanding national unity. And Labor, meeting in a Party conference at Bournemouth, knew exactly what it wanted: Churchill as Prime Minister, its two leaders in a five-man War Cabinet, Sir John Simon and Sir Samuel Hoare...
...then joined the Red Army and (by a process since abolished) was elected an officer. After the Whites whipped his Red unit in the Caucasus, Comrade Timoshenko escaped to Tsaritsyn, then defended by Red Army forces under Stalin and Voroshilov, with whom he became fast friends. They gave him command of a cavalry brigade and in 1920, while attacking Baron Wrangel's forces at Perekop in the Crimea, Timoshenko was severely wounded and his brigade was cut to pieces by the Whites...
When the Red Army began to misfire in Finland, the Dictator summoned Semion Timoshenko to Leningrad, placed him in command of the operations which ultimately broke the Mannerheim Line...