Word: bulwarks
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...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...
...elected in 1936.* On July 29 in the Bohemian Grove near San Francisco many of the nation's tycoons will caper at the annual Bohemian Club outing. To be his guest at that famed revel Citizen Hoover asked Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, a bulwark of the G. O. P.'s Old Guard who did yeoman service in the Senate for the White House in 1928-32. Observers guessed that Senator Reed was not going to take a three and a half-day train ride across the continent just for a party. Citizen and Senator would certainly...
...Industry has been the most aggressive revolutionist in a world of increasing Industrial Revolution. So fast has been its pace that 100 automobile companies have started and quit. But contrary to glib predictions, there have been few casualties since 1929. The cash reserves of good years have been a bulwark against catastrophe...