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... Feeling Runs High in New York Disruption of Czechoslovakia WITH APPLAUDING SPECTATORS lining the route, 50,000 New Yorkers, carrying big banners and numberless small flags, recently marched through the city in a Stop Hitler parade sponsored by the American Council to Combat Nazi Invasion. The parade took place immediately following Hitler's disruption of Czechoslovakia, and among the ...

... Merciless Prose Marfha Dodd's Strong Views on Nazi Germany Reviewed by VERNON FANE MISS MARTHA DODD spent four years, from 1933 to 1937, in Germany and most of it in Berlin, since her father was at that time American ambassador there. When she left Chicago with the rest of her family for their new life she was expectant, open-minded, eager to learn the language and ways of a people for whom ...

... NOT SO GOOD THIS MORNING: Meng, the London Zoo's baby gorilla, puts out his tongue. After six months at the Zoo he has doubled his weight, but he has a long way to go yet before he attains the massive poundage of the full-grown gorilla MENG SHOWS HIS PACES WITH THE BAR-BELLS Above and below-- These two pictures reveal what a wonderful specimen he is becoming, but it will be a pity when he ...

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