Word: britain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Asia the effects of the treaty might be two antitheses. It might send Great Britain into the arms of Japan, in an effort to stop the Axis on the Pacific, having been forced to retreat 4,000 miles westward from the Vistula. Or it might blow Britain all the way out of the East if Japan and Russia patched things up and the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis was relabeled to read Rome-Berlin-Moscow-Tokyo...
...days later-three days before his deadline-he rose before the Interparliamentarians and, with a wild look in his eye, proposed a 30-day moratorium during which Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy would talk things over; if the four powers failed, said Ham Fish, the problem should be refered to the Kings of Norway and of the Belgians and the President of Switzerland...
...week. Formidable, indeed, was the launching. As if sensing the pressure under which the had been built, anxious to get into the water as soon as possible, H. M. S. Formidable waited only for a crowd to gather, a band to tune its instruments and Lady Wood, wife of Britain's Secretary of State for Air, who was to christen the ship, to clear her throat, before slipping its poppet, breaking a cradle, careening down the ways. The wife of a shipyard employe was killed, 20 were injured. Caught napping, the band burst frantically into Rule, Britannia. Resolutely Lady...
...great Polish landowning families that fought for Polish independence, blond, fox-hunting Count Potocki had been so completely tagged as Washington's leading diplomatic socialite that his grim warning surprised reporters. Said Count Potocki: "Herr von Ribbentrop created Europe's crisis by persuading Fuhrer Hitler that Britain would not fight, ignoring Britain's realization since Munich that surrender would not mean peace...
Then King Carol moved to Tashaul to lay the cornerstone of its dike, while the Rumanian Navy proudly publicized figures on its growth: two more submarines to be launched in October; three more gunboats arriving that same month from Great Britain, as well as two new units from Italy, bringing the Rumanian Navy to four destroyers, nine gunboats, three submarines, a fine Danube River flotilla. Tashaul, to be completed by 1941, will be 30 times as big as Constantsa, Rumania's biggest port, will be defended by heavy artillery purchased from Germany, will have both a naval and commercial...