Word: backing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...withal no great orator, and when the ghost of collective security walked the cold halls of the vast Palace of Peace at Geneva last week, he stayed at his hotel. Finnish Delegate Rudolf Holsti called upon the League to give Finland "all practical support possible," shouted: "Give us back peace!" Argentine Delegate Rodolfo Freyre, glowing with anti-Soviet hatred, was the spokesman for those who demanded that the Soviet Union be read out of the League. Swedish Delegate Bo Osten Unden moved that a telegram-virtually an ultimatum-be sent to Moscow asking that the Red Army be halted...
...League finally got its back up could be partially explained by the fact that the expulsion was proposed and engineered primarily by those Latin American, Catholic nations to which everything that the Soviet Union stands for has long been anathema. World-wide sympathy for Finland was important, but not more so than the deep-seated hatred harbored by capitalist countries for the land of Communism. Moreover, with Germany, Italy and Japan out, the League has become more & more a unilateral organization headed by France and Britain and composed of neutrals dependent upon British and French good will. A many-sided...
...them were a few familiar faces. Easygoing, affable, fanciful Premier Per Albin Hansson had also headed the outgoing Cabinet. But there were some missing faces, and conspicuous among these was that of disillusioned Rickard J. Sandier, who had served as Foreign Minister the past seven years. He was going back to his old job as head of the Central Bureau of Statistics and his absence at the Palace told a story of the confusion of purposes and the divided counsels that today grip Scandinavia's key country...
...last month (TIME, Dec. n). Section three, "Germany's Efforts to Secure Peaceful Relations With Its Neighbors," traces the activities of the Führer "to achieve good relations" with Great Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands, Yugoslavia, Hungary and Lithuania. The Führer is quoted (cracking back when British Ambassador Sir Nevile Henderson complained of German noncooperation with Britain) : "It takes two to make a love match." In the fourth and final section, "Poland as the Tool of England's War Will," the German White Book duplicates many of the British Blue Book's documents...
...taking prisoners they retired. All that was going on, on the Allied side of the lines, was the replacement of a French unit by British troops, bringing the British into contact with the Germans for the first time in the war (TIME, Dec. 18). That these British troops threw back a German attack last week was scornfully denied in Berlin. "Curiously," snorted a communique, "the German troops know nothing of such an event...