Word: european
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...place more emphasis on the radio side of debating and hopes to arrange a trans-oceanic debate next year between the combined forces of Yale and Harvard and an amalgamated Oxford-Cam? bridge team. Negotiations have also been undertaken to stage a round table discussion in which Harvard, a European university, and a Japanese university will take part...
Liberia. There is no doubt that most British civil servants would like to see some European country administering Liberia. Founded 114 years ago with U. S. help as a home for liberated slaves. Liberia has become the scandal and pesthouse of West Africa. Slavery is rampant in the interior, so is malaria. Both have made inroads in neighboring British and French territory, but the only respectable firm that has ever made serious inroads in Liberia is Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. of Akron, Ohio. Many times in recent years there have been delicate hints that the League of Nations would...
...degree of comfort. He worked hard, never took a holiday until the doctor made him, saved every guilder. About the time rubber prices began to boom Piet's antlike qualities landed him a really good job on an isolated island. Then his boss catspawed him into marrying a European mistress who was getting troublesome. Piet, who was innocent enough to think the girl was in love with him, was overjoyed, gave his faithful brown housekeeper the goby. By the time his long-deferred leave came due, Piet was a rich man. But on the way home, and once they...
...will find WELCOME written on the doormat signed last week in Paris. It specifically takes care of the Hitler crochet which made Der Führer say he would sign up for non-aggression "with any country except Lithuania" month and a half ago. In the new treaty all European countries east of Germany except Lithuania are made eligible and urged to sign. Scratch their heads as they would this week, most neutral European statesmen could see no reason why Germany should not be anxious to sign, unless she in fact is harboring aggressive designs...
...that: 1) the Mother Country is justified in greatly increasing her armaments, not to impose the Pax Britannica-that being somewhat out of date-but "to play an effective mediating rôle" in Europe; 2) the dominions expect Great Britain, if the necessity arises,to act in a European crisis even before she has opportunity to inform them fully of her policy; 3) each dominion in freedom under the Crown has the right to make its own decision whether or not to associate itself with the other Country's high policies...