Word: aggressors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...urging that any European settlement reached with Herr Hitler be "crowned" by having Germany resume membership in a League of Nations now somewhat "revised." Such revision the Scandinavian states launched by announcing that they no longer regarded League members as bound "automatically" to join in applying sanctions to an aggressor. Last week the British delegate, Mr. Richard Austen Butler, served formal notice that His Majesty's Government back this new interpretation, while maintaining that "The Covenant's text and structure shall remain unaltered...
...green field, tens of thousands of tanned and healthy young Russian parachute jumpers, pilots and sharpshooters, children clutching airplane models and girls in nurses' uniforms trooped across Red Square behind dipped crimson banners. The only direct reference to Germany among the hundreds of banners attacking Fascism and aggressor nations were those proclaiming "Bolshevist greetings to the revolutionary proletariat in Germany...
After eight days' discussion, the delegates called on the democracies to unite against "aggressor" (fascist) nations, European Socialists splitting from their young U. S. comrades to support collective security. The Congress decided it had not lost faith in the League of Nations, urged the League to recognize Germany and Italy as the aggressors in Spain, proposed to end war in the Far East by boycotts of Japan. As the second World Youth Congress adjourned, some of the delegates, who had only one-way tickets, turned to lecturing and hitchhiking to get home...
...will be good enough. . . . If it is clear that we, having been attacked, will defend ourselves to the end; and if it is clear that an unprovoked attack will have the same consequences as the attack on Belgium in 1914, then there will be no war. Because even the aggressor in his blindness knows that in such a case he will be crushed...
...League Assembly and secure officially for themselves a recognized neutrality status similar to that of Belgium. They would ask to be released from what would otherwise be their obligation under Article XVI of the Covenant to join in applying sanctions which might be ordered by the League against an aggressor...