Word: european
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question which troubled the chancelleries of Europe was whether the madly battling Reds and Blacks of Spain would attach from outside enough Socialist-Communist and Fascist-Nazi aid to embroil the interventionists among themselves and light a general European war sooner than is expected...
...What they are clearly appeared in London last week before the House of Commons adjourned until Oct. 29 with the ominous proviso that it may reconvene "on five days notice" in case of emergency-i. e., war. So grave do M. P.'s consider the European situation that they asked and received Cabinet assurances that the Prime Minister will not leave England. Young Anthony Eden, the luckless Foreign Secretary, had to announce last week that Britain has further capitulated to Italy by abrogating upon specific demand by Benito Mussolini, the Mediterranean naval pacts she made with Greece, Turkey...
Next day International Olympic Committeeman Brundage, at his first Committee meeting, roundly recommended that all women athletes entered in the Olympics be subjected to a thorough physical examination to make sure they were really 100% female. Reason: two athletes who recently competed in European track events as women were later transformed into men by sex operations...
...German Government's decision is at once an act of friendship to Italy and an example of intelligent European policy. It serves also to point the rational way whereby, without any need ot diplomatic contortion and useless controversies, it is possible to solve practically and in a form satisfactory to everyone the problem of the Italian fait accompli in East Africa...
...company with a good many contemporary European novelists, Sigrid Undset has a faculty for making the life of the past appear rich and meaningful in comparison with the involved perplexities of the present. Her three-volume historical romance, Kristin Lavransdatter, pictured a medieval Norway that was brutal and hard, but one in which people fitted into the few simple grooves that society provided and fulfilled their destinies with dramatic symmetry. A prime example of historical fiction, its elaborate documentation artfully grained into the narrative, that book became a best seller (204,000 copies) in the U. S. when...