Word: european
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Italy's Dictator, challenging England and France to show themselves Fascism's friends, described the Rome-Berlin accord negotiated fortnight ago by his son-in-law Count Ciano (TIME, Nov. 2) as "an axis around which all European States animated by a desire for Peace may collaborate on troubles. ... It is no wonder if we today raise the banner of anti-Bolshevism!" After uttering such warlike bombast, cautious Benito Mussolini always leaves open a diplomatic avenue running in the opposite direction. "Blackshirts!" he roared. "Your marching orders are: . . . Peace with all, with those near and afar! ARMED PEACE...
...that President Conant has returned from his European tour he must give attention to the white rabbit that was pulled out of his hat during his absence. Undergraduate dissatisfaction with his "double or nothing" rule concerning the entertainment of women in the Houses has been expressed loudly many times during the past month, and with the cooperation of President Conant and the Masters a solution to the problem can doubtlessly be achieved...
...France the dominating hierarchy of Europe. These nations actually signed his Four-Power Pact only to quarrel over the Ethiopian war and Der Führer's tearing up of the Treaty of Versailles. Last week began a great new effort by Italy and Germany to erect a European hierarchy with or without Britain or France, but definitely against Soviet Russia. This was all the more fate ful because Benito Mussolini was the first dictator to extend diplomatic recognition to the Soviet Union. Last week Il Duce was apparently ready to agree with Der Führer that...
...good neighbor" policy, for which the President holds himself solely responsible, was instituted in Hoover's administration when marines were withdrawn and a general pacific attitude in regard to South and Central America prevailed. And it was not so long ago that he flailed the heads of many European governments, thus contributing, of course, to the general harmony. Lastly, and most pertinent today is the aggressive Eastern policy of building a navy "second to none"; sending the fleet on threatening maneuvers in the Pacific; building forts; and generally using swash-buckling tactics of the approved Prussian model; all, of course...
Solid and sober as the great Martin Luther looked is U. S. Lutheranism, the intensely individualist faith of many a farmer and small-towner, many a Scandinavian and German-American who still speaks the European tongue of his forebears. Because of the sect's diffuse organization, there is as yet no great single U. S. Lutheran Church whose head might speak with the authority of a Catholic archbishop. Biggest Lutheran body in U. S. is the United Lutheran Church, formed in 1918 of three smaller bodies and today embracing 34 state synods, 4,000 churches...