Word: european
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...submitted to President Roosevelt a list of the first items to be manufactured under this program. No. 1 on the list: the infantry's semi-automatic rifle, given preference because during the World War the army could not get enough Springfield rifles at home, had to turn to European suppliers. Important in industrial as well as military mobilization is a Selective Draft Act prepared for passage on M Day. Key provision so far as U. S. industry and labor are affected is a section authorizing draft boards to "exempt" any designated civilian from military service. In practice, this would...
Britain's indefatigable one-man Peace Crusade, venerable George Lansbury, M.P., who resigned as Leader of the British Labor Party largely because it was not pacifist enough for him, left London this week on another whirlwind European tour, this time of 17 days. Two years ago he talked with President Roosevelt, last year with Dictators Mussolini and Hitler; this time Mr. Lansbury has been promised audiences by Hungarian Regent Admiral Horthy, Bulgarian Tsar Boris, Rumanian King Carol, Yugoslav Regent Prince Paul...
...striking to European military observers as Adolf Hitler's calling 1,000,000 men to arms last week, was the fact that he recalled to the colors one man, Colonel General Werner von Fritsch, rated Germany's most able commander...
...German army magazine Deutsche Wehr ("German Defense") pointed with pride to a "fundamental difference" between the army of the Fatherland and that of other European countries. In France during peace time, declared Deutsche Wehr, the typical army company unit of 170 men is not kept at full strength, but in Germany it is. In France the calling up of reservists is thus in its first stage simply a filling up of the army to its nominal full strength, but in Germany the calling of reservists means adding manpower to an army already full. The regular German Army, boasted Deutsche Wehr...
While the U. S. was thus expecting, if not enjoying, a continued revival of business, European businessmen were wondering how long their duress would continue. Great question in Europe last winter was whether the U. S. would pull Europe into the economic morass (TIME, Feb. 28). It did. Question now is whether the U. S. will pull Europe out again...