Word: come
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gone forever was Guam. It would come up again in the Senate and perhaps in other defense bills. From the Navy's point of view a major catastrophe was that in the excitement, authorization of its submarine requirements in the Pacific had been forgotten...
Surrender of the remaining one-fourth of Spain now in Loyalist hands was expected to come within a few days. After two years, seven months and one week of a bloody warfare which has caused untold destruction and led to the death of an estimated 1,000,000 persons the war was all but over...
...Come the three corners of the world in arms And we shall shock them...
...always lodged the desire of some day setting up a strong, independent Palestine and at the same time satisfying the Arab nations of the Near and Middle East. Reason: to safeguard for Britain her empire lifeline to India and the East. So if a showdown over Palestine had to come, it has long been a good bet that Britain's empire-conscious diplomats would decide the problem of the Holy Land in favor of the Arabs...
According to the British plan, the new Palestine would come into being around 1942-1944. Its government would have to give Britain the guarantee that minority rights for the Jews would be respected, that the places holy to three religions in the country would be protected and that Britain would get the right to maintain such military, naval, air bases and oil reserves as she pleased...