Word: aid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Later, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, speaking in the House of Commons, served notice that Britain would tolerate no "threat to vital interests of France, from whatever quarter it came." Any threat, he said, would "evoke the immediate cooperation of this country." It was the strongest pledge of aid to France yet made by Mr. Chamberlain...
...Even if there is a withdrawal of Italian troops, the Fascist powers would gain advantages," he continued, urging that even if there was nothing that could be done now to aid the Loyalists with was materials, America should at least do everything else possible to resist Fascism...
Chambers pleaded for action to influence Congress to lift the embargo on Spain contending that there was still time enough to aid the Loyalists in beating Franco. He reported that he had delivered the Harvard Petitions to lift the embargo to the White House...
During the past two months the Harvard Committee to Aid German Student Refugees, headed by Robert E. Lane '39, has received $11,000 from Harvard students and faculty members, and $2,300 from Harvard alumni, to pay for the living expenses of the refugee students while they attend the University. Last November the Harvard Corporation voted to establish twenty new scholarships of $500 each ($100 more than tuition fee) for qualified refugee students of any creed from Germany, provided that each scholarship be supplemented by contributions for living expenses to an amount equivalent to $500 raised by the Harvard undergraduate...
...profitable a plan should certainly be extended to include many more colleges. This could best be done through the suggested method that present recipients of NYA aid be culisted in these "undergraduate faculties...