Word: european
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just 24 hours later Captain Eden and Lord Halifax returned to London from Paris, hastily and much perturbed. They had not been to Geneva, and frantic longdistance telephone calls to 14 European Foreign Ministers informed those statesmen that there was not going to be any going to Geneva last week. A call to this effect caught Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff as he was about to entrain in Berlin, switched his destination from Geneva to London. Emphatically in Paris "something had happened...
Four new courses, organized since the Course Catalogue for 1936-37 went to press, have been announced by the Fine Arts Department. They are survey courses designed to fill the gap between Fine Arts 1d, which covers the history of European art from the Fall of Rome to modern times in a half year, and those dealing with fairly specialized subjects...
...obvious to every European was the effect Herr Hitler's intimidation was having upon Britain-what with Foreign Secretary Eden urging not punishment of Germany but consideration of the treaty-breaker's terms -that Mr. Baldwin instinctively asserted the contrary, whistling to keep up Britain's courage. "Neither His Majesty's Government nor this people would ever be intimidated by threats," he boomed. "As a nation we could go on longer than others and, if driven to it [war] we should not hesitate!" After these words of fire, the Prime Minister, conscious that it will take...
Honor, Faith, God. These tremendous, slugging blows by Adolf Hitler were of a complicated nature, but with them he also provided sugar-cookies for the slugged. These he announced as German offers: 1) to make several kinds of peace pacts with virtually all European States, including an air pact in which England might join; 2) to establish with France and Belgium wholly new demilitarized zones; 3) even to lead Germany back into the League of Nations. At the bottom of this cookie jar was a conditional jagged stone in the shape of intimations that the Great Powers would...
...believe that anyone who is acquainted with the fact of the case can honestly say that Germany has ever asked to be "king-pin on the European alley", or can conceive of her in the future as planning to "leap at the throat of France like a mad yet desperate dog". Edward T. Ladd...