Word: afresh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week in Athens to have been signed by restored King George II early in December but not registered at Geneva as required by the League Covenant. Into Mr. Eden's lap was dumped not only this but charges that Germany is now violating the Treaty of Versailles afresh by militarizing the "demililtarized" Rhineland, plus demands that Britain do something in support of what Mr. Eden calls "Collective Security" by France and her allies against the new German thrust...
With Britain showing the cleanest possible diplomatic hands this week, with Standard Oil the butt of slashing attacks by New Deal newspapers, and with Ethiopia's Emperor soured on the U. S., alert London financiers called conditions ripe for Promoter Rickett to obtain his vast concession afresh for British interests if Standard Oil really does not want...
...common consent Premier Laval is now the No. 1 horse-trader for Peace. His entourage said, off the record, last week that they hoped Great Britain will raise no objection to a maneuver under which the League of Nations would designate Ethiopia afresh as "free and independent," entrusting her to Italy under much the same arrangement that free & independent Irak and free & independent Egypt are under London's thumbs...
...suppressed opinion of numerous Japanese economists the further the Empire adventures into China the more fatally she overextends herself and risks economic collapse at home. To this Japan's militarists stoutly retort: "There is no such thing as an economic collapse. One can always go bankrupt and start afresh...
...sentenced to nine months in jail for the "fraud" of pawning jewels tied up beyond his reach in the family estate by his late shrewd mother. Her wisdom has permitted Manchester time & again to spend all he can get his hands on and more, go bankrupt, and then start afresh on the next instalment handed him by trustees who have absolute discretion...