Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Heriat got his U. S. material when Actor Charles Boyer called him to Hollywood as historical supervisor of Conquest. Himself an actor on the Paris stage and for various European movie companies, Heriat prefers a suede zipper jacket to a uniform, has lately been transferred from the Goncourt subway station to the post of censor at the Hotel Continental...
...predicament was reflected by the Oslo Aftenposten, which suggested that the U. S. help Finland with munitions, airplanes and fliers, since "no European State can effectively help Finland." In that the Aftenposten was mistaken. The only State in the world which surely can save Scandinavia from Russian conquest is Germany...
...Germany, which claimed title by right of conquest...
...chosen to resort to force of arms. . . . The people and Government of Finland have a long honorable and wholly peaceful record which has won for them the respect and warm regard of the people and the Government of the United States." Called his strongest statement denouncing the policy of conquest and his strongest denunciation of "wanton disregard of law," it went beyond his appeals for peace when Hitler invaded Poland...
...Scandinavian invasion by Russia is at present not very probable," stated Frank S. Cawley, '10, associate professor of Scandinavian Literature, in viewing the outlook of the present conquest of Finland. "But", he added, "the sympathies of the Scandinavian countries are strongly with Finland and this latest Russian expansion is worrying them very much...