Word: antis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soviet Ambassador Ivan Maisky even had lunch at the London house of Lady Astor, hostess of the famed appeasement-favoring Cliveden Set. But Russia let it be known that since Russia and Germany have no common borders, the Soviet signature was useless without Poland's, and suggested an anti-Nazi conference. This was apparently too near to definite action for the ever-cautious British. The realistic French Quai d'Orsay looked upon the proposed British declaration as a typical instance of Anglo-Saxon diplomatic piety. French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet did, however, use the State visit last week...
...Party (not to be confused with the Fascist Grand Council) would combine in a Chamber of Fasces and Corporations. Last October the Fascist Grand Council decreed the abolition of the old Chamber. Last December the Chamber obediently held its last session, sang Giovinezza, passed unanimously Signor Mussolini's anti-Semitic laws and cheerfully voted its own death...
...total active militia is 4,034 men. Her coastal defense guns date from before the War, and are so small that enemy battleships could anchor unharmed 30,000 yards off Halifax or Vancouver and demolish either city. Worst of all, Canada has at most two anti-aircraft guns...
...twopenny firecrackers. But if a possible European blow-up involved Russia, what Japan was doing in the Far East would become vitally important. For some time there has been a lull in hostilities during which Japan was reported moving large numbers of troops to Manchukuo-on hand for anti-Russian duty. Last week Japan ended the lull and made it clear that while its right hand remained clenched against Russia, its left was going right on lighting firecrackers against China...
Died. Dr. Gerhard Wagner (no kin to Composer Richard Wagner), 57, Führer of Nazi physicians, No. 2 German anti-Semite*; in Munich...