Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...signatures which the British Government was especially anxious to obtain for the "Stop Hitler" declaration were those of Poland, Russia and France. Count Edward Raczynski, the Polish Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, soon told British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax that such a toothless declaration was meaningless, would only anger Herr Hitler. He suggested that Britain initiate conscription and sign a military alliance...
...giving up only a few of the concessions demanded by Italy-such as a free port at Djibouti, the Addis Ababa railway, and a share in the Suez Canal. But England was confident three weeks ago that Adolf Hitler would behave himself. As for the Italian people, they were anxious for glory but somewhat jittery. Signor Mussolini closed his speech with an old Fascist motto: "Believe! Obey! Fight!" The Italians knew whom to obey, but just what to believe and whom they would have to fight was a big mystery...
From President Roosevelt to the State Department's scrub ladies, Washington officials last week had their labors interrupted by the rape of Czecho-Slovakia (see p. 16). The scrub ladies once more found their nocturnal activities impeded by anxious young men decoding dispatches from London, Prague, Paris, Berlin, Bucharest. The President had to decide what to say, what to do. Since he must not say in public what he really thinks of Herr Hitler, his most important statement of the week was made through the icy Bostonian lips of Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles...
...that ever took place. Somewhere between "honorable" peace and "victorious" peace hard-working negotiators might be able to find an adjective which would bring plain peace to Spain. No doubt remained of the war-weariness on the Loyalist side last week. Little doubt remained that the Franco Government was anxious to wind up the 32-months'-old war that has killed more than 1,000,000 people, exiled half as many. Well it might, for even the Loyalists assumed that when peace came Generalissimo Franco would become the ruler of the entire country...
...Anxious to extend the original subways, the city found soon after the turn of the century that it could do so only on the I. R. T.'s and B. R. T.'s terms, since no bankers would fight their monopoly. After five years of dickering I. R. T.'s then President Theodore P. Shonts put on a great show of letting the city get the better side of the bargain. A man of wit, he remarked: "I was fairly well dressed when I went into that room, but they've taken away everything...