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...Four decreed that Britain and France immediately join in "an international guarantee of the new boundaries of the Czechoslovak State against unprovoked aggression." This was an historic reversal of British policy, for up to now Britain has not been directly pledged to anything on the Continent, except via her League obligations. This pledge binds her in black and white to Czechoslovakia even more definitely than her unwritten entente binds her to France...
...Chamberlain arrived in Godesberg last week to find Herr Hitler evidently 14 convinced that there might be no limit to the concessions, threatening, via his controlled German press, to hurl his army against Czechoslovakia "within 48 hours," unless Prague immediately went beyond the concessions already made. At this the Prime Minister promptly balked. With the River Rhine running between the Petersberg, hotel of the Britons, and the Dreesen, a favorite hostel at which the German Dictator was stopping for the 68th time, Neville Chamberlain began exchanging stiff, formal diplomatic notes with the Führer-the kind of thing that...
...making Vanderhofs and Sycamores on the screen seem more like flesh and blood than they did on the legitimate stage. Examples: Grandpa's friends taking up a collection to pay his fine in court; Alice Sycamore, asked to hurry downstairs, arriving to meet her prospective parents-in-law via the bannister rail; Penny Sycamore using a kitten as a paper weight...
Four months ago, a Pan American subsidiary, Pacific Alaska Airways, Inc., started overland service from Juneau to Fairbanks via White Horse, Canada. Pacific Alaska was fashioned in 1932 out of two independent lines, operating round Alaska at random in competition with dog teams...
...search for the toxicologist begins in a bar, where they start drinking on empty stomachs, continues via other bars, where they pick up strange stories of the toxicologist's victims. They get involved with drunks, with the toxicologist's servants, with the wife and child of a man sentenced to life imprisonment on the toxicologist's evidence. Meantime, Wilt reels off his unwritten stories, long since ignoring poor Bernie, who whimpers because Wilt won't stop to eat, because he has been seduced and because he has lost his money. Unfortunately, the comic side of this...