Word: began
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said afterward that the lengthy speech of Neville Chamberlain seemed to many of them to be trending toward a declaration of war, then suddenly the Prime Minister began to tell how he had sent a personal letter to Il Duce urging him to contact the Führer. This Mussolini did. "In response," said Mr. Chamberlain, "Herr Hitler has agreed to postpone mobilization for twenty-four hours. Whatever views the honorable members have had about Signor Mussolini in the past, I believe every one will welcome his gesture of being willing to work with us for peace in Europe...
This was no bluff, because all who uttered it were convinced they spoke the truth. But last week, with brave Czech crowds still shouting in Prague "We want to fight! Give us arms!." their gallant army obeyed heartbreaking orders from Premier Jan Syrovy and President Eduard Benes, began to withdraw from gigantic fortifications upon which this far-from-rich little country had spent heavily...
...Dear Reichskanzler . . ." began the Prime Minister. "The difficulty I see about the proposal you put to me yesterday afternoon arises from the suggestion that the areas should in the immediate future be occupied by German troops. ... I do not think you have realized the impossibility of my agreeing to put forward any plan unless I have reason to suppose it will be considered by public opinion in my country, in France, and indeed in the world generally, as carrying out the principles already agreed upon in an orderly fashion and free from the threat of force. . . . There must surely...
...Calif. But two years ago, when he went to Europe and wrote a series of searing attacks on Hitler and Mussolini, his standing was ace high. They deplored his sneers at "Mahatma" Sinclair and his "Brainstorm Trust," reveled in his fury at Huey Long, cooled off again when he began taunting the New Deal about the "Second Louisiana Purchase." Today, "Old Peg" is in bad odor among the intellectuals because of his attacks on the C.I.O., his open redbaiting, his disrespect for Franklin Roosevelt- ''mama...
...flight Boston physicians began at once to investigate the relation of human encephalitis to equine encephalomyelitis, and last week, in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. LeRoy Dryden Fothergill and associates* announced that, for the first time, from a case of human encephalitis, they had isolated a virus which was identical with the eastern strain of equine encephalomyelitis virus. A few days later, in Science, Pathologists Leslie Tillotson Webster and F. Howell Wright of Manhattan's Rockefeller Institute confirmed the findings of the Boston physicians and described four similar cases...