Word: buffer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Belgium, in serving as a buffer state between France and Germany, has rendered a great service to the peace of the world, Van Zeeland says. For France, Van Zeeland feels the fullest confidence and does not believe that the Daladier government is "essentially shaken...
...outward signs were false, there was no lack of apprehension in the Administration. Most Departments of the Government were hard at work behind closed doors cogitating, calculating, planning-to buffer the shock if & when war came. Under the Neutrality Act and various New Deal laws vesting power in the Chief Executive, the prospect was for more one-man government than the U. S. has yet seen when not at war itself. The job of all executive branches was to compile data and memoranda to guide Franklin Roosevelt should bombs and shells start flying in Czechoslovakia...
...tighten up the eastern buffer for the Rome-Berlin axis, Hitler's Colonel General Goring proceeded from Rome last fortnight to Bled, a resort in Yugoslavia. There he talked Nazi business with elegant Prince-Regent Paul who already has an understanding with Italy. Hungary, to the north of Yugoslavia, and Bulgaria to the east, are already in the Italian bag. Rumania is next on the list for conversion by Missionary Mussolini. Significantly Poland's pro-Nazi Foreign Minister Joseph Beck three weeks ago was in the Rumanian capital to explain that "Rumania is necessary to Poland...
...centre - most unfortunately from a strategic point of view. For that matter the industrial centres of the Ukraine visited by Mr. Davies last week are located much too near the European frontier of Russia for the peace of the Soviet's military minds. Imperial Russia had enormously larger buffer territories, holding Finland, the Baltic States, Poland and great areas now part of the Balkans- but part of Lenin's genius in founding Soviet Russia was in perceiving that unless he abandoned and threw to predatory Europe great chunks of Imperial Russia he would never be permitted...
Frantically, for 36 hours last week, Mr. Noyes tried to reach Mrs. Simpson by transatlantic telephone. She would not speak with him. Neither would her host and press buffer, Herman Rogers. This behavior so infuriated her cousin, Lelia Gordon Dickey Noyes, who married Newbold Noyes after divorcing Robert Russell Dickey Jr. (TIME, Aug. 6, 1934), that she urged him to let Wallis have it now with both barrels and reveal much not yet revealed. In time's nick Mrs. Simpson be gan exchanging cables with Mr. Noyes who had taxed her by cable with "an act of incredible unfairness...