Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mild Montreux ("warmest winter resort in Switzerland") went as his guests the leaders of vaguely Fascist groups in France, the Netherlands, the Irish Free State, Rumania, Portugal, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Switzerland. No delegate showed up to represent Adolf Hitler. Moreover, two of II Duce's most ardent foreign disciples, Austria's Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg and Britain's Sir Oswald Mosley, also stayed away. At Fascist Headquarters in Rome hangs a full-length portrait of Sir Oswald - the only foreign Fascist so honored. His absence from Montreux last week amounted to notice from...
Exceedingly high strung, therefore often indiscreet, and consequently world-champion deniers are most Japanese diplomats. Notably so is their ardent chief Foreign Minister Koki Hirota, a super-patriot of the Black Dragon Society. In his youth Mr. Hirota drafted Japan's crushing Twenty-One Demands upon China, demands so flagrantly outrageous that their very existence was denied to President Woodrow Wilson repeatedly, officially and as long as possible by the Japanese Embassy...
...Democrat Alvin Victor ("Vic") Donahey was counted in. "Vic" Donahey is the only man in Ohio's history to have served three straight terms as Governor. Though he beat one of the oldest of the Old Dealers, this tall husky 61-year-old Senator-elect was not an ardent New Dealer. During the campaign he promised: "I will support President Roosevelt-in every proper manner." Father of ten children, Democrat Donahey makes no pretense at being an intellectual giant or a political wizard. As Ohio's Governor, he used to employ a Columbus newshawk to write his speeches...
Francis S. Onderdonk, ardent anti-Nazi and extreme pacifist, will bring his "Peace Caravan" to Phillips Brooks House at 8 o'clock tonight, presenting his talking motion picture entitled the "Next War", as well as three short silent films...
Members of this unofficial mission, to the distress of His Majesty's Government, have been spouting up & down Japan of late their ardent hope for a resumption of the pre-War Anglo-Japanese Alliance...