Word: againe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every ten years saw a diplomatic somersault in the relations of the two countries. After the Crimean War, when the peace treaty forbade Russia a fleet on the Black Sea, the Tsar lined up with Germany. After the Franco-Prussian War, victorious Germany backed Russia in denouncing the treaty. But...
Next decade, after squabbles with England over Afghanistan, Persia, the borders of India and Russia's whirlwind expansion into Asia, Russia had teamed up with France; Englishmen were quoting Kipling's "The Bear that walks like a "Man"; Russians were damning England as the land of money-loving...
His promotion was rapid. First he taught at Grenoble, then at Marseille, then at Lyon, where his master Herriot was also mayor. Then Daladier got a promotion to the Lycée Condorcet in Paris. At that moment the World War broke out. He entered the Army as a sergeant...
When Adolf Hitler openly marched into Czecho-Slovakia last March, taking physical possession of the country he had morally conquered in September, loud words emanated from London in protest, few from Paris. Months before, the Premier had said, "The role of Don Quixote does not suit me." His answers to...
With Manchukuo (Japanese) and Mongolian (Russian) troops skirmishing again on the Soviet-protected Outer Mongolian border, with Japan still refusing to evacuate her troops from the International Settlement at Kulangsu, with the Japanese authorities getting bolder and bolder in their demands for control of the Shanghai International Settlement, it began...