Word: ending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crewe House [propaganda] organization did its unsuccessful best to extract from the foreign office a precise statement of what the country was fighting for (see Sir Campbell Stuart's Secrets of Crewe House). No such statment was ever produced, and the Great War came to a ragged end in mutual accusations of broken promises and double crossing...
...Even then there was a worldwide feeling that a great revolution in human affairs was imminent; the phrase 'A war to end war' expressed that widely diffused feeling, and surely there could be no profounder break with human tradition and existing forms of government than that. But that revolution did not realize itself. The League of Nations, we can all admit now, was a poor and ineffective outcome of that revolutionary proposal to banish armed conflict from the world and inaugurate a new life for mankind. It was too conservative of existing things, halfhearted, diplomatic. And since...
...spectacle of the old bitter-end former Prime Minister advocating even listening to Adolf Hitler when the one formally announced war aim of Great Britain is to eradicate "Hitlerism" surprised those who had heard him on other occasions criticize the British Government for countenancing aggression in Manchukuo, Abyssinia, Spain, Czecho-Slovakia. While some M.P.s, many of them Tories, were known to feel that peace was worth almost any price, the House of Commons generally thought that the Lloyd George speech was at best untimely for Britain and were fearful that the reaction abroad would hurt. When hot-headed M.P.s came...
Last week war in Poland had its official end as Adolf Hitler flew to Warsaw. He arrived at the city, left it thoughtful. For what Adolf Hitler saw as he drove into town was a city which he, artist by ambition, architect of a Chancellery and an eagle's nest, had designed-a city of charred wrecks, broken windows, gutted streets, tram rails bent into tortured question marks...
...sharp-eyed survivor notwithstanding, there was considerable doubt at week's end that the attacker could have been the Admiral Scheer. Chief substantiating circumstance was the presence of an airplane. But a cruiser might have launched it. Fishiest point of all was the 25 shots she was said to have fired. One shot from the Admiral Scheer's secondary battery of 5.9-inch guns could have put a hole as big as a room in the Clement; and one from her 11-inchers a hole as big as a house...