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The Shape of Things
May 6, 1939 issue

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The article focuses on the political and social conditions in the world during 1939. Poland's stout-hearted resistance to Nazi dictator Adolph Hitler's demand for Danzig seaport has started twitters in the French and British undercover appeasement groups. The British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, by introducing a conscription bill, has broken many pledges that he would never take this step in peace time. The adoption of conscription obviously has no immediate military value. The first draft of two to three hundred thousand young men will need six months for a modicum of training.

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SOCIAL change; SOCIAL movements; POLITICAL development; DICTATORSHIP; CHAMBERLAIN, Neville, 1869-1940; BILLS, Legislative
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