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Word: alling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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To obtain the necessary "unanimous" vote condemning Soviet Russia in the Assembly, although unanimous notes are not necessarily there, President Carl J. Hambro, also Speaker of Norway's Storting (Parliament), tried an old parliamentary trick. He simply acked all those in favor of the resolution to remain seated. No...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: Minus a Member | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Delegate Joseph Paul-Boncour, white-haired veteran of many a League session, did not let the occasion slip by without reminding the world that there were other aggressions and other aggressors. M. Paul-Boncour said that France and Britain were today fighting to "defend the very principle on which the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: Minus a Member | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Nor was there much doubt that the great majority of Swedes firmly seconded Mr. Sandler's ideas. At monster rallies all over Sweden, huge collections were taken up for the Finnish cause. Women threw their jewels, men emptied their wallets into big barrels. At Stockholm's Finnish Legation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: Neutral 13 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

In Mr. Sandler's place last week stood tall, 53-year-old Christian E. Günther, one of Sweden's smoothest diplomatists. Onetime Minister to Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, he has more recently served as Sweden's envoy to Norway. A playwright, novelist and poet, Foreign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: Neutral 13 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Year ago in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, "spontaneous" demands for "Tunisia! Corsica! Djibouti!" all French protectorates, were vociferously raised. Last week Fascist Editor Virginio Gayda, lamented that the two outlets to Italy's mare nostrum, the Mediterranean, were "closed," suggested it would be nice for Italy if British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Ciano on Crisis | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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