Word: note
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Entente served as a check on Bulgaria, which wants the Rumanian province of Dobruja. Hungary, which covets Rumanian Transylvania, last week opened a screaming press attack on Rumania because of Carol's "shifty" policy toward the Axis, to which Hungary clings. Finally, Russia handed King Carol a note stressing the desirability of a "popular Government" in Rumania. Having grabbed Bessarabia and Bucovina, Russia wants only that vague thing which she calls security, in the name of which Joseph Stalin has seized 210,584 square miles in the last ten months...
...face of these pressures, King Carol moved with alacrity. While he was reported preparing to leave the Entente his subjects pumped 3,000 tank cars full of gasoline and sent them hurrying to Germany; pleaded with Rome and Berlin for advice on the Russian note. All this added up to Britain's fondest hope: that somewhere along that long electrified line between German and Russian spheres there might soon be a short circuit, then a fire...
While the Americas prepared to discuss plans for a western hegemony, the shadow of an uninvited guest fell ominously across the conference city. Dr. Otto Reinebeck, German minister to Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador, delivered a note to the five latter Central American Republics (Panama was excluded), warning them that the conference would move Western Hemisphere nations away from neutrality, that the Nazis would retaliate (by unannounced means) should the delegates act against Germany. And Secretary of State Cordell Hull, head of the U. S. delegation to Havana, promptly barked back...
...Benjamin Gruskin of Philadelphia's Temple University followed up this housewifely line. He wanted to see if chlorophyll could fortify body cells which had been invaded by bacteria. He persuaded 18 of his colleagues to use a chlorophyll preparation (usually made from nettles) in their daily practice, and note what happened...
Determined to get their $20 worth, the students labored hard and soberly. Sole disrupting note to younger bankers was having to watch still younger Chapel Hill bucks squiring their coeds toward the nearby hills for afternoon strolls...