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In his Chungking home, across the Yangtze from the city proper, Nelson Johnson rises at seven, eats a hearty breakfast (Sundays he has the staff in for waffles and chicken). He rides to the Embassy Office in a four-coolie sedan with specially strong bamboo lift-poles. There he reads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Excellency in a Ricksha | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

On the Karelian Isthmus just north of Leningrad, a Russian artillery barrage and tank attack preceded the infantry advance. Unlike the Poles,*the Finns were ready with anti-tank guns and heavier field artillery. They claimed to have smashed up 54 juggernauts in five days as they fell back on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: 36-to-1 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

"Miss Zula," the Democrat's inquiring reporter quotes, "says the Yankees have been crowded out of New England. A large part of the population of New Haven, for example consists of Germans, Italians, and Poles."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elis Don't Live in Sorority Houses, New Rumor Says | 12/9/1939 | See Source »

Newer and distinctly more practical for the impoverished Poles is the pleasant unhistoric chateau in which President Raczkiewicz will reside, surrounded by spreading vegetable gardens and big cow pastures. With any luck, the new Polish colony of 75 in Angers will be able to grow much of its own food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Warsaw to Angers | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

The Premier also conferred with Dr. Eduard Benes, former President of Czechoslovakia from which Poland last year seized by force about 400 square miles, the Teschen area. Czechs bitterly declare that Poland did to them exactly what the Soviet Union later did to Poland: took advantage of a Nazi smash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Warsaw to Angers | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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