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...Harvard crews are certainly not overconfident, however, because Yale has done too well this season not to be a terrific threat. The Elis have beaten Columbia, Penn, Princeton, M.I.T. and Syracuse, while Crimson cars have flashed by Syracuse, M.I.T., B.U., Princeton, Penn, and Navy...
...love France, its fall is a hard blow; to them it means the defeat of a beautiful civilization and a way of life which they felt was unconquerable. To the many more Americans who have had very little contact with France personally, its fall is beginning to mean a threat to the security and interests of the United States. All thinking Americans have now agreed that the nation is in danger; the danger comes from the conquerers of France. Some still are reticent to admit that Germany and the United States cannot live together in peace; the ideal of peace...
...Army & Navy Register came out and stated bluntly: ". . . The French were supposed to take care of the ground operations, while the Royal Air Force of Great Britain was to handle those pertaining to the air. The sudden threat against the Channel ports and the island itself has compelled the British to hold the bulk of her air power in reserve to stem the tide of invasion. ..." When this was written, it was not known for sure that Germany would try to crush France before invading Great Britain...
...Russia were actually to risk fighting Germany, one of the Red Army's principal theoretical advantages would be its hold on the Baltic States-threat to Germany's exposed northern flank. Last week Russia went in for some trumpery which looked very much like an excuse to get a better foothold in the spot nearest Germany: Lithuania. The little State was warned to discontinue trying to pry military information from Soviet soldiers. Five Russians were said to have been kidnapped at various times, gagged, blindfolded, thrown in cellars, starved for several days, beaten, questioned. One was alleged...
Merriman pointed out that the present Mexican government is very unstable, and after having studied her past history of continued revolts, it is easy to see that the threat of another revolution is great in this uncertain period. On the other hand, Argentina and Brazil, the dominant states of South America, have not shown such a tendency toward revolt in the past and hence are not threatened as much by a revolution effected by the efficient Nazi political machine...