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WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt today denounced the peace terms which Russia imposed on Finland and reaffirmed his belief that small, independent nations should be made safe from conquest by their more powerful neighbors...
Paid $15,000 for his Columbus, Irving started off in 1828 on his famous journey through Andalusia, Spain's South, gathering material for and writing on The Conquest of Granada and The Alhambra. Traveling through wild mountains with a Russian prince for companion, he met contrabandistas, looked for bandits, was feted by village dancers with red roses in their hair. When an amused Spanish governor told him he could live in the huge old Moorish palace of the Alhambra, Irving was delighted. He moved in and stayed, imagining the heroic past and only slightly disconcerted by the howls...
...Vatican's first official recognition of Italy's conquest of Ethiopia...
...Ulen's Varsity swimmers returned to Cambridge yesterday with their eighth and ninth consecutive dual meet victories in tow. The latest was an easy 62 to 13 conquest of the hapless Penn mermen in Hutchinson Pool Saturday, the fourth straight league win for the Ulenmen...
...Chance of Peace (with Blair Bolles), Aikman has a pleasant dislike of what he calls "prescriptioneering" and a healthy sense of the vastness -historical, geographical and human-of his Latin American subject matter. He has a knack for bringing things home; e. g. (of the wonderful Spanish conquest): "It was as if the North American land mass had been explored from Cape Nome to Florida, the Rockies and the Appalachians prospected, the Mississippi and the Columbia river systems mapped, Klondike and California gold discovered, and Denver, Seattle, Chicago, Atlanta and every other American city today above a hundred thousand population...