Word: control
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Then it is a "punishable neglect" for leaders not to control war-agitating newspapers, and disturbing to recall ambassadors "without any reason...
...worst minority problems in Europe, and last week Yugoslavia, once secured by French friendship and membership in the Little Entente and Balkan Pact, was in a tight spot: the no man's land between the Axis and the British Peace Front. If the Fascist powers can get control of Yugoslavia, they will have taken the first big step to becoming the masters of the Balkans and will be miles further on the road to the British-dominated Near East...
...northwest; 2) central Bosnia, where dwell a confusion of Moslem, Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox Serbs and Croats; 3) southeastern Serbia. Each section will have separate self-governing administrations for local affairs; the three provinces will remain united by a common throne and a central Government which retains ultimate control of finances, defense, foreign relations. Creation of provincial diets, because of constitutional limitations, must wait until King Peter comes of age. It was a nice settlement; big question mark was whether provincial autonomy might weaken the country to the extent of jeopardizing national autonomy. The Hungarians are just as anxious...
...lacing. Back lacing. Lacing that will, when you want, nip in your waist two or three inches. . . . To allow your hips to round out . . . many a new corset aims to release, rather than to flatten, hips -employing soft fabric gores and gussets on the sides to lighten the hip control. . . . The better to accentuate the bust . . . some corsets mount from two to six inches above the waist. . . . Already, of course, you're used to the idea of the camisoles, petticoats, ruffled panties, batiste underwear with lace or eyelet embroidery that aided and abetted Edwardian silhouettes. . Soon your figure...
...offered his Union of democracies as the logical challenge to this threat, showing that 15 Atlantic democracies, excluding South-American nations, can control both hemispheres by creating a stronger bond of administration and sentiment between these countries which are already similar economically and ideologically. "And for the government of this Union, why not use the one constitution in modern history which has really worked--the American one?" he asked...