Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Union. What they want is neutrality. (Denmark last week signed with Germany a non-aggression pact which, in Copenhagen, was hailed as a certificate of neutrality.) But, argued Comrade Molotov, it may be that these little States will "prove unable to defend their neutrality in the event of an attack by aggressors." In that case, since they are border buffers, Soviet Russia would want them defended whether the States themselves agreed or not. The Foreign Commissar used the same line of argument in objecting to the Aland (pronounced o-land) Islands fortifications now planned by Sweden and Finland. The islands...
This move follows an attack he made at the City Council's meeting on Tuesday on Harvard "Reds" whom he also linked with the Memorial Day rites incident when fighting between students and "townies" occurred...
Quite aside from the method of attack, Mr. Bunde's article is open to question on another count. For an impressionistic commentator, Bunde makes a pretty good score, but it is to be expected that his justice might miscarry in some instances. And notable among these latter is the case of Professor Usher who has been characterized as "neither an economist nor, in the true sense, an historian," but rather "a collector of details--a hard working, conscientious gatherer of economic facts." Usher has done an excellent job in Ec. 133 (where I happen to have heard him) in tracing...
...into the following points: i) Why does the New Masses charge merely that Krivitsky-Ginsberg can't shoot a rifle and has never seen Stalin (two charges that by their nature can't be proved or disproved and anyway don't mean anything) while avoiding any attack on his main claim, which is that he was for some years chief of the Russian Military Intelligence Service for Western Europe...
...decry the Palestine plan. Elder Statesman David Lloyd George, head of the War Cabinet that made the Jewish Homeland pledge, called the Government's policy an attempt "to crawl out of their share of a definite bargain." Labor and many normal Government supporters seconded Winston Churchill's attack on this "act of repudiation." Alarmed, the Government sent a "three-line whip" to Conservatives, ordering them to support the Palestine plan as a confidence measure, and managed to squeeze a 268-to-179 victory (normal Government majority...