Word: direful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reasons for the British ooze of optimism were not hard to find. First, Britain will probably have a General Election this year. Business usually improves when governments talk peace. The European atmosphere, moreover, has been so full of dire warnings to totalitarian powers lately that many a British voter might easily have forgotten that the Prime Minister won his international fame as the Great Appeaser...
...dire day-March 6-on which many a European correspondent predicted war would come to Europe passed by early this week. No ultimatums were delivered, no troops marched (except in Spain), and the dictators even temporarily ceased barking for more land. Instead of being War Week, no week in months had been so generally peaceful in Europe...
...fund for the support of aged Jews and sold their jewelry to the State at the State's own price, they will be given passports marked with a large "J" (for Jew), told to get their visas. For those who don't get out on time, "dire penalties" will be provided...
Strangely enough, no correspondent in Germany reported that he saw anything extraordinary happening Feb. 10 or Feb. 15. From other places, however, came reports that backed up the newsmen's dire forebodings and gave substance to predictions of a coming "Mediterranean Munich" crisis...
Many Britons have of late forgiven Saint Gandhi his past sins as leader of the anti-British movement and have come to regard him as one of their best friends. To them the Bose election was an unhappy augury of dire things to come, perhaps of future challenges to British power. Of particular significance was one of President Bose's recent statements: "We must launch a struggle!" Under Subhas Bose's direction a "struggle" might not be as bloodless as the civil disobedience campaigns of Mahatma Gandhi...