Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tsarist history books are wrong, cannot agree that any history of Russia written since the Revolution is even approximately right, and cannot find an eminent Soviet historian ready to risk his neck by writing a history which the Dictator might decide was wrong. At the bottom of this dilemma is Trotsky...
...heard by the kidnapped Dictator himself by radio, was followed by the arrival in Nanking of his most trusted adjutant with peremptory orders to Dr. Kung to halt his soldiers. Since Dr. Kung had just told everybody they would not be halted, this placed the Nanking Government in a dilemma calling for the talents of Brother T. V. Soong. Great Mr. Soong has been called "the Morgan of China," and it is stockbroker gossip in Shanghai that Brother Soong is not always on the best of terms with his little sister, Mme Chiang. The Soong family tie binds them...
...that she was the head of the Church of England, virtually a female Pope. Although Prime Minister Gladstone gently dispelled this impetuous pretension (pointing out certain ambiguities in the Coronation ceremony), Her Majesty was far more right than she was wrong in the eyes of English churchgoers. The unspeakable dilemma in the case of Edward VIII in recent weeks has been: "Can there be consecrated, as a part-priest or part-Pope, one who we all know has done everything to face us with the fact that he is resolved to marry a lady with a past, even...
...years ago. At first sight of the papers, Colonel Isham, the discoverer, who happened to be just finishing the private printing of a nineteen-volume edition of the Tour from far inferior sources, could not decide whether to whoop with joy or shrick in dismay. Unperplexed by any such dilemma. Viking Press is whooping with...
...Miami-Biltmore, working late to get ready for the coming rush. While overseas the bright young Mr. Eden scratches his head over the second major diplomatic crisis he has had to handle in a year. While Mussolini frowns and Hitler grunts and Stalin snorts into his walrus mustache. The dilemma of Spain is here and has got to be unravelled. What if foreign nations openly intervene? What if foreign nations openly intervene? What can you do to stop them? . . . What stopped Italy...