Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rosengolz continued: "The British Government is preparing an attack on Sovieta from three directions. One, by encouraging and assisting the armies of Rumania, Poland and other nations hostile to my country. Two, by endeavoring to form a continental bloc of nations against Sovieta. Three, by endeavoring to unite the Great Powers in the Far East against Sovieta...
...return to the ancient traditions of the Gold Coast, liveried servants on tap, of cetera, there is little to say but that if there is to be a Harvard bloc in Hollywood, our boys must be prepared for a life of extravagant luxury now, or they will never gain entrance to film land's exclusive circles. From next September on it can never be said that Harvard undergraduates are not prepared for real high life...
Therefore, last week the frail cobweb relations between the Black Spider at Rome and the Red Spider in Moscow were strained to the rupture point. Moscow news-organs screamed that a British-led bloc of nations was being lined up against Russia; and even neutrals considered the Italian signature a British diplomatic victory...
...still the international cob-web's trembling, Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann of Germany assumed the role of peaceable mediator, intimated that Germany would proffer her good offices between Russia and Rumania in the Bessarabia dispute. He vigorously scouted the "British Bloc" story as follows: "The British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain has never intimated to me a desire to build up a bloc of European nations against Russia, but has, on the contrary, categorically denied to me any such intentions...
Farm Relief. The McNary-Haugen bill (TIME, Feb. 14), for three years a thorn in the side of Congress, was put through both houses by a defiant farm bloc which crushed the Administration cohorts...