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> To Warsaw for a four-day conference on "military coordination" went Britain's tallest, heaviest Army officer-Sir Edmund Ironside, Inspector General of the British Overseas Forces. His host was the tall, thin, handsome Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz, Inspector General of the Polish Army. Weighing 252 pounds and standing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Bravo Iron! | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

Of the Big Three U. S. utility magnates, Floyd Carlisle (Niagara Hudson and Consolidated Edison) and Wendell Willkie (Commonwealth & Southern), are lawyers Only C. (for Clarence) E. (for Edward) Groesbeck (Electric Bond & Share) is an operating man, trained climbing poles instead of chasing commas. Hard-boiled Mr. Groesbeck, who goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Pat on the Back | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Early this week, at long last, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain got around to uttering the dread word Danzig. In a statement approved in advance by Poland and France, the Prime Minister tried to set at rest any lingering doubts that his Government would back up the Poles in resisting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: We Have Guaranteed | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

Filtering into the Free City by air (Danzig is two hours by commercial plane from Berlin), sea and land were German "tourists," all men between 25 and 40. By week's end the Poles estimated there were 7,000 of them. They were housed in the barracks at Langfuhr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DANZIG: Holiday Spot | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

Wang Ching-wei and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek are temperamentally poles apart, but even after the war began they continued to work together. As deputy leader of the Party, Wang Ching-wei followed the Government on its trek from Nanking to Hankow to Chungking. But last winter he took his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Puppet No. 1 | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

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