Word: attacked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...words opened the way for Poland, Rumania, Turkey, the Soviet Union, Greece, Yugoslavia-all to join Britain and France in a pledge to aid one another in case of attack. The British Government had flatly dropped all pretenses of continental neutrality. It was an event that went a long way toward restoring the balance of power that had lately swung heavily in favor of the dictators. If Chamberlain's words meant anything, they meant that from now on Führer Hitler will have few if any more bloodless conquests...
...reefs insure sheltered landing and mooring) within striking distance of dependencies of Britain (Singapore, 640 miles away; Sarawak, 350; Hong Kong, 1,000), France (Saigon, in French Indo-China, 300), The Netherlands (Borneo, 500), the U. S. (Manila, 700). From the little Spratly Islands, Japanese planes or submarines could attack any vessel in the China Sea, and get back again with plenty of fuel to spare...
Died. Constance Lindsay Skinner, 60, novelist, historian, journalist; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Born in the Canadian wilds. Constance Skinner wrote mostly of frontier life, before her death supervised a historical series on The Rivers of America (TIME...
Died. Herman Schneider, 66, dean (onetime president) of the University of Cincinnati's College of Engineering and Commerce and originator of "cooperative" technological education, a system which divides students' time equally between study and practical experience (TIME, April 3); of a heart attack; in Cincinnati...
...there were a prospect of an aggressor launching an attack on Britain, with bombers raining death on London, I have no doubt what the decision of the Canadian people and Parliament would be. We would regard it as an act of aggression, menacing freedom in all parts of the British Commonwealth...