Word: european
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mind. While the ball was being passed from Flandin to Laval to Sarraut with badly concealed clumsiness, thunder was coming from the left and fire from the right. In arriving at the crossroad, canny Frenchmen saw the issue as it really was and made a sharp left turn. If European history for the last few years can give any lessons, Gallic logic has scored a substantial victory, and one of infinite more promise than the shallow opera being played out on the Ethiopean plains...
More significant as an indication of France's determination not to "take the road to Rome" than as the fulfillment of any social revolution, the election stands as this year's only significant contribution to European stability. Fascism has been weighed and found wanting, and western Europe is still as safe as ever for government of the people...
...French system of alliances will come into universal use. In any event, if the nations come to realize that war cannot be averted by the monks' mummery of ineffective "sanctions", a more sternly pacifistic attitude, especially in the democratic countries, may prevail on the turbulent European scene...
...Today the world faces terrible times. The European situation is graver than it was in 1914 and the stakes are higher. Today our regular army is 21 battalions smaller than in 1914, and additionally is short 12,000 men, while the territorials are 40,000 under their strength, which on paper...
...when the radical American Student Union tried to prod U.S. high-school and college students out of their classrooms for an hour to protest against war, only 25,000 students responded. Last year the Union held a second strike, rallied 200,000 strikers. With better organization and a European crisis at hand, an estimated 500,000 student strikers last week observed the third Peace Day. While the Emergency Peace Committee was imparting to the occasion a religious flavor (see p. 32), the student Peace Day gave signs of turning into a full-sized and characteristically noisy national institution, like Halloween...