Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...directly to profound changes in the European map. In an almost offhand manner, the author brings up the question of the rights of national minorities, like the Croats and Ruthenians. With only superficial analysis, she baldly asserts that the principle of national self-determination cannot be realized in Central Europe. There must be at all times a Great Power to rule this heterogeneous mass of peoples who, if allowed to govern themselves, constitute an ever-present danger to the peace of Europe. And disposing of these absorbing problems with such vague generalizations, Miss Harding jerks the reader abruptly away from...
...week where a party for representatives of the 21 American countries was gathering. The party folks were all Americans, all Lima conferees, all concerned with keeping the American hemisphere out of war. The crasher was a belligerent, a German, an official-Dr. Otto Reinebeck, German minister accredited to all Central American countries-and he brought with him a staff of assistants whose names and number were a guarded secret. Throughout South America, German propaganda agencies simultaneously charged that the parley was merely a device by which the U. S. would make all the southern republics its protectorates...
...impede any German advance with a flood. The Dutch, however, did say they were flooding their country, at least experimentally, around Utrecht. Much weaker than the 'Belgians in fortifications along their frontier, the Dutch prepared if necessary to open their Zuider Zee dikes and inundate most of their central provinces, abandoning their entire northeast to the invader and taking national refuge in the Rotterdam-Utrecht-Amsterdam triangle. To give their waters time to rise, the Dutch mined all roads and bridges entering their country from Germany. They erected tank obstructions and traps, leaving only one lane open for normal...
...which $4,635,000 was said to be cash. Ribbentrop's figure was $9,740,000. The report named securities held for GÖring by "a German shipping firm in New York": $750,000 worth of bonds, mostly Pennsylvania R. R., Illinois Central, Cities Service, Bethlehem Steel. It gave him three ranches in South America; $1,225,000 in a bank at Sao Paulo, Brazil; $1,000,000 in Swedish kronor, Danish kroner, Dutch guilders and Belgian francs in Banco di Sicilia's branch at Trieste and A. B. Svenska Handelsbanken's branch at Malm...
...plays of Shakespeare had not been easy to write," says Mark Van Doren, "they would have been impossible. . . . The great and central virtue of Shakespeare was not achieved by taking thought, for thought cannot create a world." Having thus dismissed the academic worry about "problems" he goes on to dismiss the word "Elizabethan," never uses either word again. In 34 brief chapters (average length: 10 pages) he describes with citations, line by telling line, the world of imagination created in each of the plays...