Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agreement represents a liquidation of the Ethiopian affair rather than the formulation of a new policy by either Italy or England toward the Spanish crisis. Written in very general terms, it can not have great effect because it makes no effort to solve the problems caused by the attitude of great powers to the crisis...
Langer stated that the whole Spanish affair is being used by Italy and Germany as a means of squeezing France and England. In reply to the strong feeling against Germany's sending more volunteers into Spain, shown by England, Germany has continued in its interference with an air of "How much will you give us to quit...
...well as an educator. Glenn Frank has, in the minds of the regents and a large number of people of the state of Wisconsin, failed as an administrator of public funds. In each of the crises which the university has faced in the last two years, the Snell "affair" at the Extension Division in Milwaukee in 1935, the Spears-Meanwell athletic flareup last spring and the present budget question which brought about this latest trouble, Frank has failed to take a strong stand and has remained "unavailable" until the crisis was past. It is on these grounds that the regents...
...Archbishop of Canterbury followed on Sunday with a remarkable broadcast which in effect rebuked himself and the Archbishop of York for having rehashed the affair of Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson and announced it was time that all Britons stopped making any further reference to it. He then switched into a furious castigation of Soviet Russia and made this glancing reference to birth control: "Many regard the rich results of Science as being all-sufficing. This has brought about a loosening of the ties of marriage and restraint upon the impulses of sex. Well may we ask-'Whither...
...British themselves would not normally become excited over the presence of German volunteers in the Spanish ranks. What is happening is the same old affair. Because the Paris People's Front newspapers see fit to become excited and the French Foreign Office is issuing alarming statements, the Fleet Street editorial desks must become excited...