Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peace: "To all! To all! To all!" They summoned a congress of the Third International, sent out a manifesto which began: "Europe is in flames; the wolves of capitalism howl among the ruins!" They dropped their rigorous membership requirements only when Denikin was marching on Moscow, when membership, involving danger above everything, could appeal only to revolutionists. When the civil war ended they were masters of the country-a starving, typhus-ridden, spent and ruined country that lay, in "chaos and old night," from the steppes of the South to the black, reckless, European plain...
...Conservative Party women in London, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain used stronger words. He had chatted with former French Premier Leon Blum, who went over to London to try to persuade his British Labor colleagues to accept conscription. M. Blum had told Mr. Chamberlain what he considered the greatest danger of war in Europe today: the impression that Britain and France would not fulfill their promises. The Prime Minister told the ladies...
...Church of St. Mary-le-Bow in London is that anyone born within reach of their chimes is a Cockney. The chimes are also used during British Broadcasting Corp.'s medium-wave broadcasts in German, and lately in Germany anyone within reach of them has been in danger of having trouole with the Gestapo...
...campaign of ours we have a strong, practical demonstration of neighborliness and tolerance. How vastly different, by way of contrast, is our situation from that in certain countries overseas where we have been witnessing a racial and religious persecution so cruel as to render life almost intolerable. Is there danger of such racial or religious antipathies crossing the ocean and finding foothold here? I cannot believe it. Yet, from time to time, even in this country, we hear vague, intolerant mutterings...
...continued his predictions with a prophecy on the war danger: "If European war can be staved off until after the next American Presidential election I think it can be staved off altogether, for all of our time...