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...Africans are outnumbered by blacks three to one. Somebody must administer Southwest Africa, and, rather than give it to Portugal (its northern neighbor) or France, the Afrikanders would prefer Germany. France's policy of raising, training, and arming huge levies of black troops they feel is a definite threat to white supremacy in Africa. It is a mistake which Nazi Germany, with its passion for Aryanism, would not make...
With the scalps of M.I.T., Columbia and Penn already under their belt the 150-pounders are given their best chance in years of taking the trophy. In their performances to date the Tigers are about on a par with the Yale boat which they consider their biggest threat next Saturday. Both beat M.I.T. by about the same margin, but the Orange and Black oarsmen opened up a little more water on Columbia...
...With the spread of Communism in China and with the constant penetration of Mongolia by Russian propaganda and cheap goods, Japan is faced with the grim possibility of a Sovietized Asia, whose markets will forever be closed to Japanese goods and whose revolutionary foreign policy will constitute a perpetual threat to the security of the Island Empire. Unless Japan can stop the onward rush of the Russian Bear, she is faced with the grim probability of starvation and defeat. While it is possible to see the justification of Japan's fear of Russian expansion, it is a little too much...
...startling instance of the power of Allied propaganda appeared in the campaign to save the starving Belgians. "Americans did not know that the threat of starvation came, at the moment, not from the Germans-but from the British Navy! . . . Mr. Whitlock was working earnestly, in co-operation with the German authorities and a Belgian committee, to rescue starving Belgium from the British blockade." In 1915 a book called Defenceless America, by the brother of Sir Hiram Maxim, machine-gun inventor, raised goosebumps on thousands of U. S. necks. It was made into a cinema called The Battle Cry of Peace...
...attempts at counter-propaganda mostly misfired. Most spectacular were the visits of the Dentschland, commercial submarine, to Baltimore, and the U-53 (which sank nine merchantmen off Nantucket) to Newport. As sporting events, both these voyages appealed to the U. S. imagination, but in retrospect they soon seemed a threat...