Word: czechoslovakian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Snug in a chateau facing Lake Geneva and Mont Blanc, students of Geneva College for Women had a gay time talking French as well as English, dropping in on the League of Nations, making the most of their social opportunities-until the CzechoSlovakian crisis. After Munich, the Misses Burgess and Lux could find only six U. S. girls whose parents would let them go to Geneva. They padded their enrollment with four CzechoSlovakian girls on scholarships, opened the fall term, soon began to hear from the U. S. girls' parents. Each time Adolf Hitler made a speech, the parents...
Harrison M. Rainie, Jr. '40 will be the soloist in a varied program consisting of the Harvard Hymn; two choruses from II Matrimonio Segreto by Cimarosa; Miserere by Allegri; choruses from the Birds of Aristophanes by John K. Paine; Nagdlein Im Walde, a Czechoslovakian folk song arranged by Dvorak; Bachanale from La Belle Helena by Offenbach; and choruses from Iolanthe...
...Italian defeat at Guadalajara one of the decisive battles of history. Liddell Hart said Ethiopian mobile tactics would probably swamp Mussolini's invaders. Edgar Ansel Mowrer said that two years of the Chinese War would see Japan's morale crack. G. E. R. Gedye said the Czechoslovakian Army would fight before it would yield. And long ago, before modern methods of communication made foreign correspondence a large and thriving profession, the London Times asserted that, in capturing Atlanta, Sherman had merely lengthened his lines of communication to the point where he had become easy Confederate prey...
...Czechoslovakia's pre-Hitler censorship regulations forbade films that might "threaten the Czechoslovakian democratic system directly or indirectly through propaganda of a dictatorial regime...
Karl Deutsch, former Czechoslovakian student and holder of Harvard's first refugee scholarship, warned the gathering of Harvard and Radcliffe students that America faces the same threat that has overwhelmed his home land...