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...finds it difficult," began the pensive dictator, "to explain such a defeat [the 14-day advance of the German Army] only by the superiority of German military technique . . . and by the lack of effective assistance ... of Great Britain and France. The Polish State has proved so impotent and inefficient that it began to crumble . . . with the first military set backs. What are the causes of the situation which brought Poland to the verge of bankruptcy...
Tomorrow morning the class will meet at 9 o'clock in New Lecture Hall to hear College officers explain various problems connected with the year's studies. Alfred C. Hanford, Dean of the College; Keyes DeW. Metcalf, director of the University Library; and Delmar Leighton '19, Dean of Freshmen, will speak...
Meanwhile officials set about explaining to Britons, and trying to explain to Germans, why peace with Adolf Hitler was impossible. In a broadcast to Germany Prime Minister Chamberlain was polite: "You are told by your Government that you are fighting because Poland rejected your leader's offer. . . . The so-called 'offer' was made to the Polish Ambassador . . . two hours before the announcement by your Government that it had been 'rejected...
...clear in the use of words such as patriotism, Communism, Fascism; explain the viewpoints of foreign nations, especially of those nations most disliked...
...this portrait, Sergei (like other characters in the book) has more of the Russian character as portrayed by Tolstoy and Dostoevski than of that played up by Soviet fiction. Soviet critics explain that Russians have changed, grown cheerful, hygienic, machine-minded, athletic, non-acquisitive. They That Take the Sword suggests that the Russian character survives more stubbornly than any Soviet official confesses...