Word: buts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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But when Count Csáky, in the course of his travelogue, arrived at the Rumanian border, his tone grew tough. That country, he said, was the chief stumbling block to a Danubian bloc of neutrals. Until Rumania decided to listen to the "voice of the new era"-i.e., hand...
In Bucharest the reaction to this sudden recrudescence of Hungarian Irredentism was instantaneous. Rumanians thought it no coincidence that German troops were reported concentrating at just that time in the Nazi dependency of Slovakia, north of Hungary, and they suspected that the troops were meant not only as a reminder...
Nor was it a coincidence that a Nazi trade delegation in Bucharest demanded: 1) more Rumanian products; 2) cheaper prices; 3) increased transportation facilities. More than half the German-Rumanian trade in grain and oil used to go by sea from Constantsa to Hamburg. That route is now cut and...
After the "new State" had made worldwide headlines, tactful Angers authorities unobtrusively explained that it had no dimensions, that their soil remains 100% French but that troops of the Polish Army, which General Sikorski is industriously recruiting in France and Britain among expatriate Poles, will be permitted to mount armed...
Excepting Germany and Russia, the Great Powers acted as if a State had been set up in Angers. They sent their diplomatic envoys, including U. S. Ambassador Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., the Philadelphia socialite who was bombed out of Poland with such éclat. He promptly rented the Ch...