Sphere of Interest clash reshapes Baltic Balkan borders
A map and dispatches detail how the Sphere of Influence division stirs conflict across Baltic and Balkan sectors. Estonia capitulates to Moscow enlarging Russia’s naval reach. Lithuania and Latvia feel pressure as Poland’s oils and wheatfields attract attention. Romania faces pressure over Bessarabia and southern cession amid a broader Russian-German power balance. The piece notes Mussolini’s disappointment and Berlin's shifting leverage as Russia and Germany share ground while Britain and France watch.
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Baltic Sea
Estonia
Moscow
Russia
Reich
Lithuania
Rumania
Bessarabia
Bulgaria
Balkan
Yugo-Slavia
Italy
Mussolini
Europe
Turkey
Dodecanese
Germany
Siegfried
Lina
London
Berlin
Paris
Josef Stalin
Adolf Hitler
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Viacheslav Molotov
Britain
France
Poland
Hitler
Hut Herr von Ribbentrop
Baltic
von Ribbentrop
Ribbentrop
Latvia
Obscure World War II Quiz Clashes With News Quiz Note
A fragmented column presents a multiple choice trivia about wartime figures and places. It notes a high American Catholic dignitary’s death and asks why Ernest Simpson made headlines. It ponders if average Americans fear invasion and asks about Changsha’s location and affinity, with answers hinted at column bottom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz
Warsaw
Poland
Ernest Simpson
Congress Debates Early Neutrality Repeal Proposals
A congressional debate opens on lifting the arms embargo and restricting belligerent credits to 90 days. Administration allies back cash and carry with 65 senators supportive, while isolationists and figures like Nye Borah and Lundeen press for stricter limits and travel bans. Colorado’s Edwin C. Johnson fuses lifting embargo with 90 day credit concerns. Additional splits arise over jail terms for Americans in combat zones and President power to designate restricted areas. Responses touch New York manufacturing price restraint, Cincinnati AFL convention debates mediation for world peace, and questions on 1940 GOP nomination prospects for Arthur Vandenberg.
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U. S
Congress
Acon
Colorado
Edwin C. Johnson
Johnson
New York
George A. Sloan
Consumer Goods Industries Committee
Cincinnati
A. F
U.S
A. F B. of
Michigan
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Gt Gearhart
Ore
Thurman W. Arnold
Oregon Bar Association
News Quiz Answers and Historical Notes
Answers note Racekiewicz named president of exile Polish regime to succeed Moscicki, who resigned and was interned in Romania. Mundelein as archbishop of Chicago is cited. Ernest Simpson's wife gave birth to a son. Gallup shows 64 percent fear in the U S. Changsha in China defended by Chiang Kai-shek's army against Japan.
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Racekiewicz
Ignace Moscicki
Rumania
George Cardinal Mundelein
Chicago
Ernest Simpson
Changsha
China
Chiang Kalshek
Ten Terrible Seconds on a Ship Rope Rescue
Brooklyn radio operator Herman Wallin recalls a night aboard the S. S. Cornelia between New York and the West Indies in July 1926. Walked overboard by misstep, he grabbed a missing rope and was saved by a second rope later called the guest rope as shipboard crew pulled him back aboard.
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Ello
Herman R. Wallin
Brooklyn
N. Y
Herman
Herman Wallin
S. S. Birkenhead
New York
West Indies
Cornelia
Cornelis
Lot
Western
Union
Donkey Leads Prospectors to Rich Silver Mines in Idaho
A small donkey named Jack carried N S Kellogg Phil O Rourke and Don Sullivan on a prospector trip in the Coeur d Alene mountains of northern Idaho. One night the animal ran loose and the next morning the party followed a trail to a canyon where they found a mineralized slab of galena that yielded two silver mines worth about 4 000 000. The tale places the discovery near an early military route along Mul Yan road as the Jack watched the rock with unusual focus.
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Kellogg's
Jack
Coeur d'Alene Mountains
Idaho
N.S. Kellogg
Phil O'Rourke
Don Sullivan
Mul: Yan Road
Kellogs
Tibet
World's Lofty Tibet and Butter Ceremonies Revealed
A Washington note recounts how Tibet's Lamaist death rites surge butter demand and prices, detailing the butter economy from yak milk to salted tea, butter lamps in temples, and the annual winter butter sculpture festival led by lamas in Shangri-la’s high plateau.
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Washington
Tibet
Shangri-la
Siam Renames Nation Thailand in Modern Regime
A streamlined Siam adopts the name Thailand and revokes old treaties under a constitutional government since June 24, 1932. The regime increases military service, doubles the navy, imports bombing planes from the United States, expands public utilities, and launches new factories producing textiles, petroleum, sugar, hemp, silks, vegetables, and drugs while pursuing a broader defense program.
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National Geographic
Washingtons
Br Con Wg Meevices
Siam
Thailand
United States
Switzerland
Goering
Germany
France
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Rome
Alya Adams
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Caribbean
Canadian
Adventurers’ Club
Davita
USRA
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Regia
Iran
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Nepal
Indian Ocean
World
Bervanis
America
Ery
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