Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great newspaper owner, a frank caterer to mob passions, is the chief antagonist; while two brothers, a manufacturer and a one-paper journalist, do battle for liberalism and pacifism, but draw their strength from a woman, their sister-in-law. There is something in the play of the old conflict of destruction versus creation with their usual symbols, a man and a woman...
...pirate" attacks by submarines in the Mediterranean after the Nyon agreement has made the King "happy." His Majesty noted "with satisfaction the strengthening of all three of my defense forces" and hoped that the coming Nine-Power Brussels Conference on China and Japan "may contribute to bring this deplorable conflict...
...Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia who have vital stakes in the Far East. His Majesty's Government in the Kingdom of the Belgians announced that the Brussels Conference will "examine the situation in the Far East and study peaceable means of hastening the end of the regrettable conflict which prevails there...
...British & French Governments, to grant assistance to Belgium in case she should become the object of aggression or invasion. ... It confirms its determination under no circumstances to impair such inviolability & integrity and at all times to respect Belgian territory except, of course, in case of an armed conflict . . . in which Belgium should participate in military action directed against Germany...
...Letter to James B. Munn," Mr. Hillyer discusses the conflict within him between the poet and the academic scholar. Also there are letters to Bernard De Vote, Peyton Randolph Campbell, Queen Nefertiti, and the author's son. Only in "A Letter to Queen Nefertiti" does he abandon his pleasantly familiar tone and adopt a more racy and a more lyrical theme...