Word: european
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With domestic problems forced relatively into the background under the able administration of finance minister Bonnet, France is bending every effort to induce Britain to join with her and Russia in a democratic bloc against the increasingly powerful central European dictatorships...
...which followed the Ottawa Conference of 1932. These agreements were discussed by the British Government with Dominion representatives at the Imperial Conference after the Coronation, apparently without settling which part of the Empire should make the necessary concessions to the U. S. But during the past troubled month of European diplomacy the British Cabinet suddenly took the U. S. treaty conversations out of the hands of the Board of Trade, proceeded to get down to business...
Last spring 74-year-old William Randolph Hearst began to set his enormous affairs in order. One of the properties on which he wanted the public to lend him $35,500,000 was St. Donat's Castle in Wales, the Lord of San Simeon's European seigniory. Two months ago the registration statement by which Mr. Hearst sought the approval of the Securities & Exchange Commission for an issue of bonds to that amount was discreetly withdrawn. Recently, however, Publisher Hearst unburdened himself of four of his newspapers, and last week he succeeded in realizing a little something...
...Gallic War that the Druidic warriors "learn by heart a great number of verses." Scholars have long puzzled over Welsh manuscripts of the 12th Century, trying to decipher lines and circles that meant chords to Cambrian harpists. The Welsh apparently invented harmony, structural basis of all modern European music, dressed their tunes in accompaniments when the countrymen of Bach and Palestrina still took their melody barbarously naked...
Pointing out that "even dictators are not immortal," Miss Brittain said that the longer war was delayed, the smaller would be the chance of its coming at all. The success of European statesmen in preventing crises more serious than any that led to the World War from leading to another is the most hopeful element in the present situation...