Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must have worried about this a lot too. Recently they announced that the time of the swimming meet had been changed, in order to avoid the conflict. But quickly they discovered that the conflict had been written into their official calendar, which is sent to thousands of alumni and students. This was enought to make the H. A. A. backtrack in a hurry. Appalled by the prospect of alumni disappointed at finding nary a ripple left in the indoor pool, they have again changed the time, and pushed the swimming meet back on top of the hockey game. But still...
...observation tour of war-torn Europe for President Roosevelt, departed for Berlin at 12.10 A.M. today for conversations with German Foreign Minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop and Chancellor Adolf Hitler which the Italian press believed may have a strong hearing on the future course of the Russo-Finnish conflict and the war between the Allies and Germany...
...Attorney at Detroit was ordered by Attorney General Murphy to conduct a grand jury proceeding. . . . Even-handed and impartial justice would not localize prosecutions of this character to Detroit. ... I can see no good to come from reviving in America at this late date the animosities of the Spanish conflict. ... It seems inappropriate to begin prosecution for activities so long known to the Government...
...been in any Norwegian harbor. ..." Further snapped Foreign Minister Koht: ". . . The British Government is of "the opinion that it can neglect ordinary international law. . . . The [Norwegian] Government cannot believe that the British Government, when having thought the case over, will not acknowledge that it is in open conflict with the principles of which it has itself so many times proclaimed." The Foreign Minister's clincher: "There is no international rule at all forbidding a war power to transport prisoners through a neutral area, in so far as navigation itself is not illegal...
...dangerous revolution in Soviet Russia (he financed the Nazis as a bulwark against Communism), but failed to detect a social upheaval in Germany. The latter should now be clear enough for him and everybody else. In his last speech, Adolf Hitler described the present war as a social conflict between predatory, hypocritical plutocracies and great, proletarian States like Germany. Last week the Nazi hierarchy was busily ding-donging the theorem that the Third Reich is fighting the classes for the masses, canceled Herr Thyssen's citizenship...