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Fearing repetition of the dreadful setback thorough-breeding suffered during World War I, owners of laboriously trained hunting and shooting dogs and breeders of show dogs sent many of their prize specimens to Australia, Canada and the U. S. Last week many U. S. dog lovers were helping keep British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Animal Raid Precautions | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

In London Eire High Commissioner John Dulanty, on orders of the Prime Minister, appealed to Dominions Secretary Anthony Eden for clemency, spent 20 minutes trying to persuade Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to stay the sentence. Mrs. Tom Clarke, the Lord Mayor of Dublin, whose husband was killed by the British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EIRE: Ultimate Cause | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

Gracting that Mr. James is a clown and comparatively harmless himself, nevertheless he provides a dramatic lesson in the basic techniques of modern dictatorship, and a reminder of the economic sickness of American democracy. It can happen here. Social inequality, economic insecurity--these are the breeding ground of bigger Hitlers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOMESPUN HITLER | 2/15/1940 | See Source »

"Old Unhappy Bull" Sirs: Congratulations on your excellent picture of the fighting in Finland in your issue of Jan. 8. But I cannot read of this war in the wilderness, of battles fought by spectral shapes in a winter of perpetual night, without thinking that in our own day a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 22, 1940 | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

"Rummiest War." In the United King dom authorities made frantic efforts to keep evacuated children from returning to town for Christmas, and literary bigwigs wrote persuasively in the press. "This Christmas, coming as it does in the rummiest war the world has ever known, will be a test of our...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Christmas | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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