Word: british
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Parliament having sat, argued, debated and voted continuously since the war's outbreak with no noticeable hindrance to the military, the French Chamber of Deputies could see no reason why it should shut up shop. Rightist Louis Marin got a big hand when he insisted that Parliament, far from obstructing the Government, would be a wartime help. M. Blum disavowed politics, but refused to "accept the text of a law that would transfer totalitarian powers" to the Government. The Chamber tried to argue M. Daladier into submitting all decrees to Parliament within a month of issuance. The Premier...
Belatedly last week the German Foreign Office came out with a 3,000-word reply to the famed and bestselling, 195-page British Blue Book on the origins of World War II (TIME, Oct. 2). Its chief point...
...those who know how to read, this English collection of documents is really a unique and positive proof of England's unquestioned will to war. . . . That the goal of [British Foreign Secretary Viscount] Halifax and his helper, the British Warsaw Ambassador [Sir Howard] Kennard, consisted of keeping the Poles from entering into serious negotiations with Germans is fully and completely confirmed by the English Blue Book. It appears scarcely believable, but it is nevertheless true...
...England wanted war against Germany. . . . The only reason why Poland was unwilling to reach a reasonable understanding with us was because she felt herself secure as a result of the British guarantee...
...document of the British Blue Book which places the war guilt on Germany is the British message to Germany on Aug. 28, three days before the invasion, saying that definite Polish consent to negotiate was at hand. That message, said the German Foreign Office, "was a sheer...