Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members of last year's graduating class who were awarded special grants for foreign study, five have returned from Europe; two had not yet left when war broke out, and will not take up their Fellowships; one who had already reached Europe is returning; and the whereabouts of two are as yet unknown...
...POLAND: KEY TO EUROPE-Raymond Leslie Buell-Knopf ($3). History has now severely blue-penciled certain passages* in Poland: Key to Europe, by the ex-head of the Foreign Policy Association, now Round Table Editor of FORTUNE. Wonder is, however, that so much of the text can still stand. Candid, exhaustive, lucid, this is still by all odds the best available book on Poland, Europe's "Great Unpredictable...
...Jews, 750,000 Germans, 1,500,000 White Russians, 5,000,000 Ukrainians in a population of 34,500,000) ; 5) precarious political conflicts, kept in check only by the Poles' fervent nationalism. Thus traditional suspicions of Germany and Russia have determined Poland's "unpredictable" foreign policy; unhealthy world economic conditions have determined its domestic ills...
EUROPE IN RETREAT-Vera M/c/)e/es Dean-Knopf ($2). Origins of Munich, by a Foreign Policy Association expert, for whom the pros & cons add up thus: the need of "fundamental transformation of the existing international economic order...
BETRAYAL IN CENTRAL EUROPE-G. E. R. Gedye-Harper ($3.50). Fluent, heated, colorful account of Austria from 1925 through Anschluss, with a bitter windup on Czecho-Slovakia, by the much-expelled foreign correspondent of the New York Times...