For nine years the whole world (pop. 2,134,000,000), with brief exceptions here and there, has been in a Great Depression. At some point in these bitter years, the post-War world became a pre-War world—that is, a world anticipating World War. Millions and millions of young men, in the U.S. as elsewhere, had a War marked fatalistically on their private calendars. . . .
With these words TIME, in its May 1, 1939 issue, introduced a new, occasional department, Background For War, dedicated to the proposition that world war was close at hand and that...
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