Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese Army was furious with its Government for removing Tientsin negotiations to Tokyo, and has been trying to sabotage the parleys all along. The Army hopes for a holdout, and a breakdown of the Tokyo negotiations. "Such a development," said pudgy, suave Major General Masaharu Homma, Commander of the Tientsin Garrison, who learned to hate the British as an Oxford student, "can only be welcomed. Then we shall be freed of the Government's promise to respect British interests in Asia. The Tientsin Concession can then finally be closed...
...Poles were pleased with this outward demonstration of British-Polish military solidarity, which was far more understandable, if not more important, than a temporary breakdown at London of negotiations for a British military loan to Poland. There, Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, Economic Adviser to the British Government, insisted that the Poles spend the projected $25,000,000 loan in Britain. Head of the Polish Finance Commission Colonel Adam Koc was equally insistent that no strings be attached to the loan, and once last week he threatened to leave London in a huff. At week's end there was talk...
...Nonobjective" art is the purist's name for abstract art in which no trace of actuality remains. A cubist breakdown of the statutory cubist wine bottle and guitar would not qualify. Solomon Guggenheim had grown grey in philanthropy and the copper business before he fell for his first nonobjective painting about eleven years ago. Since then he has accumulated 726 of them, the world's biggest private collection. His guide and friend in non-objectivity has been a fortyish, fervent lady artist, the Baroness Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen...
...World." That music sets the tempo, and in time with its thunderous beat marches a story of decaying society that is as grim as it is magnificent. That little group of people, on a desolate little island north of Scotland, fighting a losing battle against nature, themselves, and the breakdown of the immemorial traditions, becomes a living cell symbolic of a larger organism...
...with the Poles. The Führer, it was said, had promised Poland a cut in a Nazi dismemberment of the Soviet Union. Although no written agreement resulted from the Potemkin visit, Polish-Russian affairs were left friendlier than they had been in many a year. With the breakdown of a Polish-German commercial agreement expected, Polish-Soviet trade will probably grow. While Poles were still suspicious of aid from Red Russia, a few German bombs falling on Warsaw could reasonably be expected to make them change their minds and welcome all the guns and warplanes they could get, from...