Word: belongings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russia permanently patrolled by Soviet forces, in addition to establishment of Red "bases." Lithuania asked that its former capital Wilno, which was seized in 1920 by Poland and thus has now passed into Soviet hands be "restored." The Moscow radio announced that "the workers of Wilno wish to belong to the Soviet Fatherland and not to Lithuania!" As the negotiations continued, there was talk in Moscow that Russia would return a part of the city and province of Wilno to Lithuania...
University of Texas' Homer Price Rainey: "We cannot escape the fact that we belong to the culture pattern of Western Europe which is represented by England and France. Hence if these countries should face defeat, we would find it difficult to remain out of the struggle. . . . We may ... be on the verge of tragic days for our young people...
...citizens have urged one another to a progressively mounting hatred of war. For five years they have encouraged one an other in a growing distaste for the brutalities of Fascism. Today, the two emotions exist side by side in the hearts of most Americans. But Americans do not belong all in one camp, for in some one emotion is stronger, in some the other...
...square miles of marshland, forests and rich black earth inhabited by some 3,000,000 Ukrainians, Moldavians, Tartars, Ruthenians, Bulgars, Germans and Jews. In 1920, and several times since, the U. S. S. R. demanded that a plebiscite be held in Bessarabia to settle to whom it shall belong, but up to last week Rumania had always nose-thumbed such proposals. In Soviet schoolrooms moppets find in their geography books that Bessarabia has never ceased to belong to Russia and unquestionably J. Stalin has an even heartier appetite for it than he has for gobbling Polish territory...
...wealthy Londoner telephoned his brother in the South of France. Would the brother and his wife like to use the Londoner's private plane to get home? No, thanks, came the answer. For the brother's wife, Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, dislikes airplanes even if they belong to the King of England...