Word: briton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government has accumulated 50,000,000 ordinary gas masks and 940,000 special masks for men who will be on outdoor duty even during air raids. Britain's population is 44,500,000. Since millions in the rural sections will probably never need a gas mask, many a Briton in London and other big cities will have a mask not only at home but at the office...
...general war in Europe cannot fail to involve Great Britain. That such a war had been stalled but not stymied at Munich many a Briton was suddenly made aware. An old people, with a long tradition of troubles, the British have an easily recognized traditional trouble-shooting apparatus. With high officials sounding dire warnings, with politicians patching up internal differences, with smooth persuaders out trying to make friends abroad, it looked as though the old apparatus was being oiled up last week...
...socialist and a republican -that is, a traitor to Her Majesty Queen Victoria. So disgusted was Punch with the Radical, whom it contemptuously called "Joey," that he was caricatured as a clown, caught in the act of applying a red-hot poker labeled "Socialism" to the behind of a Briton reading the Times with a checkbook under...
...Grand Council went on to issue decrees revealing something different, namely that 11 Duce-quite apart from Jewish questions-wishes to fire Italians with the concept of the "Italian race." Reason: He believes Italians can never be successful Empire builders unless they feel as superior as the most superior Briton feels...
...square miles on October 1 (see p. 18) and is to get a total of 10,000 square miles progressively by October 10. Moreover, plebiscites will now be held under an international commission of five set up by the Big Four, consisting of one Czech, one Briton, one Frenchman, one German and one Italian-thus weighted 3 to 2 on the side of the democracies. Neutral observers predicted: "The Czechs now have a good chance to win most of the plebiscites," which are to be held by November 30. The Commission of Five is empowered to recommend "minor modifications...