Word: european
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Climax at Stresa? In London last February today's great effort for European peace was launched by His Majesty's Government and the new-dealing Premier of France, strapping, kinetic Pierre Etienne Flandin. To Adolf Hitler they sent an offer. If Der Führer would back up his loud professions of peace by four acts they offered him in exchange a major concession...
Stalin: Germany is in a dangerous state of mind. Efforts to isolate such a nation in the centre of Europe would be vain. It is absolutely necessary to take measures of precaution to make European peace secure...
Sheer Confidence. Thus, on price policy, van Zeeland took a position opposite to President Roosevelt's. He announced nothing resembling the NRA, and headlines about NEW DEAL FOR BELGIUM could be charged off as oversimplified tosh. Chief effect of the European currency misgivings produced by Belgium's devaluation was to give a fillip to the notion that "Sterling is the best money," and Sterling soared against other currencies, gold and paper. Smug British bankers plumed themselves once again on the Empire's supremacy in creating sheer confidence out of whatever sheer confidence is made of. Keen...
...These little idols, fetishes and masks are direct expressions of religious emotion. The sculptor approaches his work in humility, always feeling that he is less important than the figure he is carving. His carving is for itself, out of his emotion. Is it any wonder that European modernists, rebelling from a current mode of art, should have hailed ecstatically such simple expressive beauty...
There remain, however, dangerous explosives in the international situation, largely because Hitler has been talking more loudly and faster than the leaders of all the other countries combined. Although Der Feuhrer asserted his wish for European peace, he emphasized, in the devious language of diplomacy, his determined opposition to any interference in the "natural relations" between Austria and Germany--a statement which will stick in the crop of Mussolini. Even more serious are the arrogant demands that the Polish Corridor be demolished, that part of Czeckoslovakia be returned, and that the Reich have an air force equal to the French...