Word: belgian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus on the legal face of things British, French, Italian and Belgian troops had every "right" to start marching on Berlin with no taint of "aggression" after the Council voted last week. Yet it was never clearer that those who talk loudest about "collective security" are the ones most unwilling to fight...
...general staffs of Britain, France, Italy and Belgium remain in constant liaison "for the period of emergency," the implication being that if no peaceful solution is reached by the Conference this liaison solidifies into a British-French-Italian-Belgian military alliance...
From this it was a natural transition for Adolf Hitler to picture himself and Germany as the parties injured by French, British, Italian and Belgian statesmen in finding Germany guilty at London last week of treaty violation. In these electioneering efforts der Führer was assisted by Nazi censors who dealt with incoming dispatches from London in such fashion that from reading German newsorgans one would have supposed that the British people, most British statesmen and many French people considered Germany wholly guiltless and the victim of a few French statesmen of the most hate-poisoned stamp. Actually...
...means is Crown Prince Umberto one of the many Italian aristocrats who have rushed to the war in Ethiopia. Amid nationwide furor last week his wife, Belgian-born Crown Princess Marie-José, showed where she stands by engaging passage to sail for Ethiopia as a Red Cross nurse this week...
...Robert was busy with a prospective Baldwin-Flandin scheme of audacious reasonable ness, nothing less than that Britain should enter a new treaty nailing down not only the Western Locarno frontier but also the Eastern frontier of Germany with a British-French-German-Russian-Polish- Dutch-Danish-Lithuanian-Belgian round-robin agreement, under the terms of which Britain would specifically agree to FIGHT at any breaching of the Locarno Rhineland frontier...