Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Berlin officials announced: "All German naval forces have the strictest instructions to act in accordance with the rules established by international law." They suggested the Athenia might have run into a British mine. To this the British Admiralty retorted there were no British mines 200 miles west of Ireland. Retorted Berlin: "It is likely that a British submarine fired the torpedo as a propaganda measure to influence United States neutrality...
Labor's Arthur Greenwood jumped up. He was cheered for 30 seconds. An act of aggression was committed 38 hours ago, he said. Why was Britain waiting? Liberal Sir Archibald Sinclair urged action. It was, said a correspondent, the 59th second of the 59th minute of the final hour...
...confusion the only certainty remained what it had been in Europe-that peace seemed worth almost every sacrifice, that morally Adolf Hitler had been stopped. Said the New York Times, premier U. S. newspaper: ". . . We know where responsibility lies for this reckless act that has plunged Europe into war. We know in our hearts, and there is no point of honor and no scruple of neutrality which need forbid us to deny it, that the democracies of Europe are the outposts of our own kind of civilization, of the democratic system, of the progress we have achieved through the methods...
...doubted, but the ability of its venerable institutions to change quickly, to face a crisis, to adjust its slow-turning machinery to the swift emergencies of war. Test of Britain's men was not the sincerity of their aims, which few besides Hitler questioned, but their ability to act promptly, strike hard if necessary, change their pace as Hitler changed...
...dominion nor colony, nor full-fledged independency? Strategically crucial in Mediterranean naval plans (see p. 22), a sovereign power that recognizes Britain's special interest in the Suez Canal Zone, Egypt is legally no more than an ally of Britain. This week, Egypt demonstrated how an ally could act to give support...