Word: european
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, at the White House last week, the President dealt with the gravest European crisis since 1917 through the Department of State. To Adolf Hitler's annexation of Austria, the President's only public reference was an indirect one at a press conference. Asked whether he had signed the Czechoslovakian Trade Treaty, in which Austria is mentioned on the list of most favored nations, the President said he had signed it, and that legally-if there was such a thing as international law-he had not at the time been officially informed by Austria that it had ceased...
Following short speeches by Fay, Vagts and Hopper, noted authorities on international relations, Wilkey will question all three informally on the subject of German expansion and its effects on the policies of the European powers...
...naval science students were planning to go to Japan to collect data and photographs for a thesis on "The Development of European Art in Japan," saw that two Japanese had been arrested for photographing the Harvard Bridge here yesterday, which would naturally be readily vulnerable in the case of a Japanese expedition through the Bering straits and the Northwest Channel. They are investigating the possibility of changing the subject to the "Development of Art in Korea...
...committee held 30 meetings, heard 50 witnesses, devoted most of its time and most of its 85-page report to Imperial Airways Ltd. Excerpt: "There is not today a medium sized airliner of British construction comparable to the leading foreign types. Foreign manufacturers, American in particular, dominate the European market. . . . Management has been defective . . . intolerant of suggestion, unyielding in negotiation. Air services to the West Indies and across the Pacific are an uncontested monopoly of an American Company" [Pan American Airways...
Snip, Snip. The terrible crises which have been frequent in the lesser European countries since the War have bred statesmen with tough nerves. On the day Austria was being invaded, out to an orchard went Austrian Nazi Minister of Interior Dr. Seyss-Inquart, incipient Chancellor...