Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wrote in its Weekly News Service: ". . . BEWARE THE KISS OF DEATH OF THE C. I. O. . . . Is it possible the C. I. O. is out to promote the interests of the A. F. of L.? ... They know they can't get anywhere on their own and they are anxious to gain shelter from public wrath behind the established reputation of the A. F. of L. . . . And the next thing you know, the C. I. O. press and the Communist press are . . . trying to make the public and Congress believe the A. F. of L. rank and file...
...peasants repairing machines, mending carts, sharpening scythes. In southern France, Italy, Russia, a decisive harvest began. A peasant army hundreds of thousands strong, strung out on a vast peaceful front from Siberia through France, was advancing by successive mobilizations as yellowing grainfields quickly ripened northward. To war-anxious Europe this peaceful mobilization meant a kind of armistice. For while peasants in uniform fight Europe's wars, they could hardly be set to fighting until they had got in the grain. And since even modern mechanized armies still travel on their stomachs, no nation could well afford to risk losing...
...Paris, the French Government, although anxious to treat the matter as purely a local incident, was willing to go along with the British on whatever measures were agreed upon. But at week's end the British, involved up to their necks in building up a "Peace Front" to resist Adolf Hitler's aggressions in Europe, took no measures at all. The British felt that they could not fight the Japanese economically without U. S. aid, and last week the U. S. State Department kept noticeably quiet...
During the War Britain was also anxious to win the loyalty, brains and financial support of her Jewry, and part of the price she paid was the promise of a Jewish national home in Palestine, then as now preponderantly populated by Arabs.* But as of last week it was more expedient to welsh on the Jews, who are on the run in many parts of the world, than to welsh on the Arabs. Arab friendship in a Mediterranean war of the sort Signor Mussolini has been bellowing about would be of great value to Britain. Nevertheless, there were still plenty...
Ezra Pound, poet and economical, although not (he is anxious to establish) an orthodox member of the latter profession, thinks that students here are being cheated of their $400 tuition...