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...tide of events seems to have reverted to the threat of arms. If such threats continue, it seems inevitable that much of the world must become involved in common ruin. All the world, victor nations, vanquished nations and neutral nations, will suffer...
...Angeles was not yet mad enough at Hitler to want to fight him abroad, but anger was rising. The big, sprawling metropolis ("seven suburbs in search of a city") seemed not really concerned about the war threat. Europe is a long way from Los Angeles...
Pondering motive as well as strategy, naval diplomats reasoned that the order 1) was not a peace gesture designed to back up the President's peace message last week (see p. 13) by moving the Battle Fleet 3,000 miles farther westward from Europe; 2) probably was a threat to Japan, should the time come for it to fall in with European war plans, and 3) certainly was a tangible reminder to Hitler & Mussolini that the U. S. has a potent force to be moved here or there at the President's command...
...talked of team in the league is the Boston Red Sox. To camp followers this spring they showed such class that they are generally given an outside chance to beat the favorites to the wire-or at least give them a run for their money. How much of a threat they turn out to be will depend largely on a trio of rawboned rookies: Ted Williams, Jim Tabor and Woodie Rich...
Princeton's Varsity baseballers split even in a six-game vacation campaign, and for this reason more than anything else they deserve to be regarded as a threat in the Eastern Intercollegiate pennant quest. They took their last three spring trip tilts but since then have bowed to Fordham and Navy...