When Hertzog advocated neutrality towards Nazi Germany in 1939, he was deposed by a party caucus, and Smuts became Prime Minister for the second time.

Smuts was invited to the Imperial War Cabinet in 1939 as the most senior South African in favour of war.

Meanwhile, after 1939 the policy of the UNSWP tended to follow Gen. Smuts instead of Gen. Hertzog, in part because of the fear of a new German interest in the territory.

Informally known as " The Big Book " ( with its first 164 pages virtually unchanged since the 1939 edition ), it suggests a twelve-step program in which members admit that they are powerless over alcohol and need help from a " higher power "; seek guidance and strength through prayer and meditation from God or Higher Power of their own understanding ; take a moral inventory with care to include resentments ; list and become ready to remove character defects ; list and make amends to those harmed, and then try to help other alcoholics recover.

From 1938 to 1945, he held a succession of positions, first becoming senior history master at Blundell's School in Tiverton, Devon in 1938 ( and also a Captain in the school's OTC ), then instructor at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth in 1939.

By 1939 Nissan's operations had moved to Manchuria, then under Japanese occupation, where its founder and President, Yoshisuke Ayukawa, established the Manchurian Motor Company to manufacture military trucks.

He was promoted to Captain on 30 June 1937 and was then given command of the destroyer in June 1939.

Hayek continued his research on monetary and capital theory, revising his theories of the relations between credit cycles and capital structure in Profits, Interest and Investment ( 1939 ) and The Pure Theory of Capital ( 1941 ), but his reputation as an economic theorist had by then fallen so much that those works were largely ignored, except for scathing critiques by Nicholas Kaldor.

He famously put the point into dramatic relief with his 1939 essay " Proof of an External World ", in which he gave a common sense argument against scepticism by raising his right hand and saying " Here is one hand ," and then raising his left and saying " And here is another ," then concluding that there are at least two external objects in the world, and therefore that he knows ( by this argument ) that an external world exists.

The ceremony was first conducted with the Prince of Wales ( the future Edward VIII ) in 1927, then with King George VI in 1939, and last with his daughter, Queen Elizabeth II in 1959 and 1970.

But Carías, by then a virtual dictator, wanted even more, so in 1939 the legislature, now completely controlled by the PNH, obediently extended his term in office by another six years ( to 1949 ).

In the 20th century the centre of the education system became more focused on Scotland, with the ministry of education partly moving north in 1918 and then finally having its headquarters relocated to Edinburgh in 1939.

The school leaving age was raised to 14 in 1901, but despite attempts to raise it to 15 this was only made law in 1939 and then postponed because of the outbreak of war.

On 15 March 1939, German troops occupied the Czech area of Czecho-Slovakia, which then became the Reich Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

In March 1939, Ribbentrop assigned the largely ethnic Ukrainian Sub-Carpathian Ruthenia region of Czecho-Slovakia, which had just proclaimed its independence as the Republic of Carpatho-Ukraine, to Hungary, which then proceeded to annex it after a short war.

Ribbentrop had used such extreme language, in particular his remark that if Germany had a different policy towards the Soviet Union then Poland would cease to exist, that it led to the Poles ordering partial mobilization and placing their armed forces on the highest state of alert on 23 March 1939.

On the night of 30 – 31 August 1939, Ribbentrop had an extremely heated exchange with the British Ambassador, Sir Nevile Henderson, who objected to Ribbentrop's demand, given at about midnight, that if a Polish plenipotentiary did not arrive in Berlin that night to discuss the German " final offer ", then the responsibility for the outbreak of war would not rest on the Reich.

Chernenko then steadily rose through the Party ranks, becoming the Director of the Krasnoyarsk House of Party Enlightenment then in 1939, the Deputy Head of the AgitProp Department of Krasnoyarsk Territorial Committee and finally, in 1941 he was appointed Secretary of the Territorial Party Committee for Propaganda.

At least three times, discoveries of the element 93 were falsely reported, as bohemium and ausonium in 1934, and then sequanium in 1939.

In a review of it, John Clute wrote: “ I ’ m not about to suggest that if Heinlein had been able to publish works openly in the pages of Astounding in 1939, SF would have gotten the future right ; I would suggest, however, that if Heinlein, and his colleagues, had been able to publish adult SF in Astounding and its fellow journals, then SF might not have done such a grotesquely poor job of prefiguring something of the flavor of actually living here at the onset of 2004 .”

On 2 November 1939, the President dissolved the Sejm and the Senate, which were then, according to plan, to resume their activity within two months after the end of the Second World War ; this, however, never happened.

In 1939, the American Law Institute issued the Restatement of Torts, containing a summary of trade secret law as it then existed.

He then moved to France where he lived the rest of his life, became a French citizen in 1939, and produced some of his most prominent art.

From then until his wife's death in 1939, Stravinsky led a double life, spending some time with his first family and the rest with Vera.

He was assigned to the Cavite Navy Yard in the Philippines, expecting to be transferred shortly to the Bureau of Engineering in Washington D. C. After a trip overland across China, Burma, and India, by air across the Mideast to Athens and then London, and by ship to the U. S., Rickover arrived in Washington and took up his duties as assistant chief of the Electrical section of the Bureau of Engineering on 15 August 1939.

Germany then invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia in 1939, creating the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and the country of Slovakia.

* 1939 – Siam is renamed Thailand by Plaek Pibulsonggram, the country's third prime minister.

* When Joseph Lyons, prime minister and leader of the United Australia Party ( UAP ), died suddenly in April 1939, the governor-general, Lord Gowrie, called on Sir Earle Page to become caretaker prime minister.

The president Tayfur Sökmen was a member of Turkish parliament elected in 1935 ( representing Antakya ( Greek: Αντιόχεια ) and the prime minister Dr. Abdurrahman Melek, was also elected to the Turkish parliament ( representing Gaziantep ) in 1939 while still holding the prime-ministerial post.

Hopper ’ s Room in New York ( 1932 ) and Cape Cod Evening ( 1939 ) are prime examples of his “ couple ” paintings.

When Abby Rockefeller's son Nelson was selected by the board of trustees to become its flamboyant president in 1939, at the age of thirty, he became the prime instigator and funder of its publicity, acquisitions and subsequent expansion into new headquarters on 53rd Street.

( He was the only prime minister to be knighted during his term of office until Robert Menzies in 1963 ; various others were knighted after leaving the office ; Sir Earle Page was already a knight when he briefly became prime minister in 1939.

In 1923 President Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg appointed him chairman of the Bank of Finland, a post he remained in until he became prime minister in 1939.

In late autumn 1939, Ryti was offered the post of prime minister, but he tried to turn down the offer.

Image: The cabinet of Sweden 1939 and prime minister Hansson. jpg | The newly appointed Swedish cabinet, assembled outside the Royal Palace in Stockholm, December 13, 1939.

He was a professor of Forestry 1911 – 34 ; director-general for Finland's Forest and Park Service 1934 – 1943 ; prime minister in 1922, 1924, and 1937 – 1939 ; chairman of the National Progressive Party 1933 – 1943 ; and Member of Parliament.

* Abdullah Ahmad Badawi ( born 1939 ), the former prime minister of Malaysia

Tswetkovich ) ( Yugoslav prime minister )) in August 26, 1939.

Ba Maw served as the first prime minister of Burma, but he was succeeded by U Saw in 1939, who served as prime minister from 1940 until he was arrested on January 19, 1942 by the British for communicating with the Japanese.

The Albanian Fascist Party became the ruling party of the Italian Protectorate of Albania in 1939 and the prime minister Shefqet Verlaci approved the possible administrative union of Albania and Italy, because he wanted the Italian support in order to get the union of Kosovo, Chameria and other " Albanian irredentism " into Greater Albania.

On March 7, 1939, a new government was formed with Călinescu as prime minister ; on September 21, 1939, he, in turn was assassinated by legionnaires avenging Codreanu.

The president Tayfur Sökmen was a member of Turkish parliament elected in 1935 ( representing Antalya, and the prime minister Abdurrahman Melek was also elected to the Turkish parliament ( representing Gaziantep ) in 1939 while still holding the prime-ministerial post.

* 1939: Death in office of prime minister Joseph Lyons

Pál Count Teleki de Szék ( 1 November 1879 – 3 April 1941 ) was prime minister of Hungary from 19 July 1920 to 14 April 1921 and from 16 February 1939 to 3 April 1941.

He served as the prime minister of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1939 to 1941.