Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pressure for a declaration of war aims has been severe in Britain. One of the aims collapsed with Poland. Another-Stop Hitler-was negative and took no account of the future. When Belgium and The Netherlands last week proposed peace, Britain's Government tried to decide and announce what it expects of peace...
...last half of her book is devoted to the Civil War, which she prefers to describe as a fascist invasion. Though she keeps her account simple and personal, she gives an abundance of the war's history, of which, as head of the Foreign Press Bureau, she is well qualified to speak. She handled the press at Geneva when Spain made its futile appeal before the League, feels that the "cynicism and treachery" of the British and French Governments reached their highest points there. Of the four-month battle of the Ebro: "We fought the last part of that...
Fresh from the epic struggle over the repeal of the arms embargo, the Hon. David I. Walsh, Massachusetts' senior United States senator, will give a behind-the-scenes account of America's neutrality policy tomorrow evening, according to an announcement by the American Independence League...
...knee snapped backward so violently the main blood vessel was torn. For six days doctors did what they could, finally told him they would have to amputate his leg just above the knee. "O. K.," said Don Herring, "go ahead." Next day he listened to the play-by-play account of the game in which his teammates nosed out Harvard...
...years one of the more appetizing types of reading, for devotees of the Atlantic Monthly, has been the account, by one gently bred, out-of-the-way wife after another, of what life is like in the centre of the Dust Bowl, on the borders of Manchuria and in any environment whose loneliness, distance or oddity few Atlantic readers were likely, in the flesh, to attain. It was therefore not surprising that the book to win, over 600-odd contenders, the Atlantic's $5,000 non-fiction contest for 1939, should be an account of what-life-has-been...