Word: either
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After making this protest Sassoon continued in the ranks. What either of these poets have to say should be of moment to all intellectually honest people of whatever nationality. Sassoon is the man to whom Wilfred Owen addressed his poem, The Next...
...Provided." In Berlin, the Foreign Office persistently pooh-poohed the idea of an invasion of either country. When, however, Nazi diplomats were asked point-blank to reaffirm Germany's respect for Belgian and The Netherlands neutrality, they simply pointed to previous declarations, in which Germany had agreed to respect Belgian and Dutch neutrality provided the other side also respected it. That did not necessarily mean a great deal...
...British navies. Satisfied that they had something to chase, they were out in force scouring the seas, putting in here & there when necessary for fuel and water. Ships reported by name were the British Achilles, Cumberland and Ajax. No fresh attacks by Scheer or Deutschland were reported, suggesting either that their fuel was low or they were lying low. In Mexico, one of a pair of carrier pigeons (a hawk got the other) was reported brought in by an Indian with a German naval commander's code message on its leg. Mexicans said they knew a secret radio...
Whatever the answer, one of a pair of alternatives was inescapable: Either the famed German secret police made a bad slip, or somebody fairly close to Adolf Hitler wants him dead...
...week the Finnish delegation to Moscow went home with corns and cool heels on its diplomatic feet from having patiently attended the Soviet Foreign Office, but with considerable pride in its heart in not having yet knuckled under to the U.S.S.R. After four days without so much as seeing either Joseph Stalin or Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov, but having made it clear that there were some things that could not be surrendered, even by the weak to the strong, the delegates left for Helsinki. Negotiations, indefinitely postponed, apparently broke down on Russia's demands for a naval base...