Word: aims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ultimate aim of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's "realistic" foreign policy is a revival of the 1933 four-power agreement, cosily bedding together Great Britain, France, Italy and Germany, leaving Soviet Russia to sleep on the pool table. But nobody is ready to turn in with anyone else until the problems of the Spanish war are settled. So last week Prime Minister Chamberlain called the battered and bruised nine-nation subcommittee of the Committee on Non-intervention to consider the realities of a new British plan. Its provisions...
Hitler will push on into the Balkans, Professor Langer believes, although he will not take them into his pan-German empire. His present aim is to reunite Bohemia with the other Germans, and then to extend Nazi control over non-German elements...
Retired Concert Pianist Mero-Irion founded the W. N. R. C., originated the idea of the Sealtest Rising Musical Star series, which her committee graciously commended under not one but two categories for its music and good taste in advertising. Her aim is to make newsboys whistle strains from Aïda. She storms at what she considers the state of radio broadcasting, loathes crime stories, poorly performed music, women baritones, precocious child artists, true story programs, advertisers who coax children to eat their products, amateur hours...
...bother to aim your guns because it won't do any good; just blaze away" was the order given to British soldiers during the Revolutionary War, asserted Charles T. Haven in the Upper Common Room of the Union last night...
...Japanese aim is to clear the Tient-sin-Pukow Railway so the Japanese puppets of Peiping can be united with the equally submissive Nanking puppets. At one point north of Suchow the Japanese advance guard was stalled 15 miles from the Lunghai Railway. At another point south of Suchow a Japanese column was reported within 20 miles of the line. The southern force was small, however. Between it and the main southern army were scores of miles of hostile territory. A gap of at least a hundred miles had to be filled before the two puppet governments could meet...