Glimpses of World History
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In 1935 there was the invasion of Abyssinia; in 1936 Spain was attacked; in 1937 China was invaded afresh; in 1938 Austria was invaded and removed from the map by Nazi Germany, and Czechoslovakia was broken up and reduced to vassalage. Each year has brought its full crop of disaster; what of 1939 on whose threshold we stand? What will it bring to us and to the world?
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First published in two volumes by Kitabistan, Allahabad 1934–35
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