Word: backing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Question-of-the-hour put by Roosevelt loyalists to their fellow Democrats is: "Do you oppose a third term for the President? When it reached resilient Maury Maverick-the super-New-Dealer who, defeated for re-election to the House, snapped back last month as mayor of San Antonio-the question bounced. "I think," said Maury Maverick, "that I'm against a fourth term, and I know I'm against a fifth...
President of the Board of Trade Oliver Stanley and Sir John Simon, an appeaser from way back, swelled the chorus, but the strangest note was struck by Sir Francis Lindley, onetime Ambassador to Japan, longtime foe of Soviet Russia, stanch friend of and host to Mr. Chamberlain. Sir Francis told the Conservative Party's Foreign Affairs Committee that British prestige would rise if the projected pact with Russia fell through...
Justice. While France made every effort to persuade the former Loyalists to go back home, much of the news that filtered through the tightly censored French-Spanish frontier was not calculated to encourage mass reentry. Eighteen permanent tribunals were said to be working in Madrid trying Loyalists; there were said to be 500 arrests in Barcelona and Madrid daily; 2,000 awaited trials in Madrid alone; 688 have been executed; 20,-ooo were in a concentration camp near Alicante. Although there were accusations still outstanding against 1,000,000 persons in former Loyalist territory, the police appealed to the public...
...Louis had to be back in Hamburg in time for a scheduled sailing on June 20. Back she started. The passengers tried to keep up their spirits with games, music, religious services; a patrol was organized to prevent suicides. The last slim hope of the refugees was to find a haven in the Old World. The Nazi Government, needled by the danger of mass suicide on the St. Louis, and the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees expect to find a refuge this week for her freight in Britain, France, Belgium or The Netherlands...
Whittling. Also in France still were 350,000 ordinary Spanish refugees encamped en the beaches in southern France. About 90,000 of the original 500,000 refugees who crossed over the border last February have returned to Spain, and last week about 400 daily were going back to their homes. Some 9,000 former soldiers of the Spanish Republican Army have joined the French Foreign Legion and have been sent to Morocco; aviators, antiaircraft gunners, mechanics, technicians and chauffeurs are being taken into French military organizations. French arms factories have been examining daily about 250 Spanish munitions workers, and giving...