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Describing the Russian reversal of form before the outbreak of war in Europe as a result of Britain's "dilly-dallying around," Samuel H. Cross '12, professor of Slavic languages, last night explained in a Crimson Network talk the Russians' entry into this...
...outbreak was timed one day ahead of a national convention of Jacques Doriot's pro-Nazi PPF party in Paris and his regional offices were tarets for some of the bombs...
...describing the attitude of the French army at the outbreak of war he said that "the soldiers went into the lines convinced of victory, thinking the war would be over in five weeks." They had none of the fighting purpose of the troops in the first World War. They thought they were fighting a phony war, and the Germans did everything they could to keep them convinced of the unimportance of their fight...
...bounded on the northeast by the Japanese army, which also occupies one-third of its area. Seventy counties are left free in Honan. The 35 counties crowded close against the Japanese in the northeast pocket are being withered by the worst civilian disaster in China since the outbreak of war. Refugees crossing the Chinese lines from Shantung report worse conditions there than in Honan. The refugees drift along in a stupor of hunger and despair, having no destination, but only the desperate urgency of flight...
...Cardinal MacRory has leaned so far backward in his effort to be neutral that his head sometimes seems to be in the Third Reich. In 1938 he ordered public prayer "for Christians in Germany who . . . are being subjected to a most dangerous persecution," but since the war's outbreak he has reserved his most vigorous denunciations for the Allies...