Word: barred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This underlay the sensational proposal, quickly adopted, that the navies of the Americas patrol their seas in a defined "security belt" around all of the Hemisphere but Canada. With the aid of air fleets the ships would police the territorial waters to a distance averaging 300 miles offshore, would bar all European submarines, allow belligerents' surface warships only the legal 24 hours' entry...
...Japanese Bar Association discovered a legalistic basis for Japanese demands that Europeans get out of China...
...Mexico. Liked by everyone are Artist Sloan's portrayals of city life with its socks down: lean cats scavenging in a snowy back yard, a dust storm on Fifth Avenue, scrubwomen in a library, girls on a roof drying their hair, men lined up at a bar. Less liked are the strange, bright-colored nudes, hatched and crosshatched in red, green, black, with which he has stubbornly experimented for the past ten years...
...months were caught napping. Others had looked for a big battle on the Western Front when Polish fighting bogged down in mud that never came. One & all, they cooled their heels last week, copied official hand-outs from the Ministry of Information in London, drank pernods at the bar of the Hotel Lancaster in Paris, while youngsters who had never seen a war before kept cables quivering with stories of a nation's despair and death...
...been as interested in the peace as it was in the war, Versailles and its aftermath might never have happened. If America wishes, as President Conant seems to desire, to participate in the next peace--as it did not do in the last--and to bar a solution based on vindictiveness or unreason, then America must herself...