Word: bulwark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heirs. There was a time when long-legged Gustaf, King of Sweden and of the Goths and Wends, was more plentifully supplied with heirs than any other monarch in all Europe. He had two sons and five grandsons, hardy scions of Napoleon's General Bernadotte. In reserve to bulwark his line, he had three brothers. But these princes seemed to have a family failing for marrying commoners. Brother Oscar went first, for love of a lady-in-waiting, after renouncing his right of succession. His son Folke went next, for Estelle of the U. S. roofing Manvilles. Last year...
...aristocratic antecedents would be more satisfactory to all groups in Austria than any of the bloody alternatives which face them; last, the government which seemed to have the most chance of establishing some sort of political stability and could at the same time act as a strong bulwark against Hitlerism would have the united support of the powers and especially of Italy, which is even now making friendly overtures to the Prince. A Fascist Regency headed by Starhemberg satisfies all these conditions. It looks as though the Prince's hour has arrived; and everything seems to indicate that he will...
...League of Nations' covenant is and has been an urgent necessity for a decade. If Germany and Italy can manipulate France into a conciliatory mood, these reforms might be effected. France, however, has consistently weaned the League away from its international purpose and used it as a bulwark of protection against any attack upon her gains in the Versailles Treaty. Therefore she will most likely cling to the status quo, build up her armaments even more, and watch her cherished League pass away...
...definite shape and form." Indeed, it is impossible to read the Old Testament and feel that Hitler's autocracy, of single party ballots compounded, would have flourished anywhere so well as in Israel. Dr. Krause should not allow his hatred of the Jews to blind him to that great bulwark to Nazi political theory which the Old Testament provides. He should demand that it be read by every young German, as the Reichsbishop, a cleverer man, has already done. I do not know if his doctorate was earned in Church History. Certainly it was not earned in the College...
...position which Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss of Austria occupies in this melange is critical and interesting. As the world knows, he is the nominal bulwark against the Anschluss and its proponents, the Nazis. Keyed up by a buoyant egoism which has led him to exploit his four feet eleven inches as a little Napoleon, and supported by considerable religious fervor, he has snatched at every straw to consolidate his position. To take the wind from Nazi sails, he has become a real dictator with actually Fascist principles, though professedly an amorphous Christian Socialism. How long will he last? That...