Word: european
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt toiled late aboard the U. S. S. Tuscaloosa as it carved the midnight waves to Red Bank, N. J. last week. Fog and finicky fish had spoiled his vacation cruise to Newfoundland. Now another European convulsion had ended it a day early. Franklin Roosevelt sat up late working on an idea of his own: a peace plea to King Vittorio Emmanuele III of Italy, who was trout fishing in the Alps...
...March, Stalin made a big speech before the Communist Party Congress, lashing out against the democracies. Stalin's Ambassador reportedly let Berlin know of Litvinoff's fall five days before it came, and, day after it came, the Hamburger Fremdenblatt significantly said: "European politics now have emerged once for all from the unfruitful era of unbounded ideological conflict. . . . Realists now have taken over the leadership from idealists like Litvinoff and Eden...
...that 3,222,000 balky Ukrainians, shorn by the Soviet-Nazi Pact of any hope of a Nazi fostered Ukraine nation, had declared their loyalty to Poland. "The Ukrainian nation," exulted the patriotic Krakoiver Kuryer, "has extended a fraternal hand to the Poles to fight together in defense of European civilization...
Spanish nightmare of recent months has been fear that Germany and Italy would exact participation in a European war as return for their participation in the Spanish war. Last week the Soviet-German Pact gave Spain a perfect out, which she was quick to seize. How could Spain fight hand in hand with Communism, which she had spent three years stamping out? Last week General Francisco Franco took steps to insure absolute neutrality: closed Spain's border with France, hastened demobilization of his troops, dissolved surviving branches of his General Staff...
...Congress, famed Professor Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov, who is out of favor in Russia because he does not believe in the long-outmoded inheritance of acquired characteristics (TIME, June 26). Communists prefer to believe in the inheritance of acquired characteristics. Called home from the meeting were all the European delegates. Professor Gunnar Dahlberg of Sweden was the only one who stubbornly refused to leave...