Word: builded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...While we build up Britain's strength, I will strive to remove the causes of war in the world!" Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain promised in the House of Commons this week, as he asked approval for armed forces expenditure this year of $1,758,750,000 (see p. 18). In his house at No. 10 Downing Street, meanwhile, he had given swift impetus last week to negotiations for the Four-Power Pact which Britain, Germany, France and Italy will try to make (TIME, March 7), possibly admitting Poland to make it a Fiver...
...claim to be a better friend of the League of Nations than some of those who speak for it! The League today is mutilated, halt and maimed, and those who like me to do my best to build it up are serving it better than those who would attempt to put on it in its present state tasks which are manifestly beyond its strength...
When the ingenious Chinese people do not have enough airplanes, or wish to impress the Japanese by seeming to have more than they possess, they build extra planes of reed and matting construction (see cut). These-parked appetizingly in view-have drawn many a Japanese bomb away from real Chinese planes hidden elsewhere...
...Would Fight!" As debate on the White Paper opened in the House of Commons this week, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain digressed to rebuke all who think he is not for the League of Nations (see p. 17), then explained that Britain is "spending till it hurts" to build up "almost terrifying power." This "will not be used for aggression" he promised, will have "a sobering effect on world public opinion." Until the United Kingdom is secure, the Dominions, he hinted, could fend for themselves, be rescued later...
...made more like a confession by Bukharin's describing it in court last week as "the platform for the restoration of Capitalism, as we visualized it"-whereas neither Editor Bukharin nor his readers in 1929 visualized it as anything but a slower, perhaps better way to "build Socialism...