Word: european
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...traditional isolation, by plugging for repeal of the atrociously misnamed "Peace Act" of 1937, and, yesterday, by throwing the weight of the United States behind Britain and France even more emphatically than he did by the subsequently retracted "frontier statement." Those who hope for an eventual solution of European problems without another great war will heartily applaud his action...
First before a House committee, then before Senators, Mr. Morgenthau was on the defensive from the outset. The reason for renewing both the President's power of dollar devaluation and the life of the Stabilization Fund is to protect U. S. business if European currencies go to pot, but Mr. Morgenthau had solemnly to assure the House that the Administration had, at this time, no idea of further devaluation; that the Fund had not and never would be used to finance foreign purchases of arms...
...dire day-March 6-on which many a European correspondent predicted war would come to Europe passed by early this week. No ultimatums were delivered, no troops marched (except in Spain), and the dictators even temporarily ceased barking for more land. Instead of being War Week, no week in months had been so generally peaceful in Europe...
Last week Bostonians trooped to the Fine Arts Museum to see the Institute's most independent, smartest exhibition so far: "Sources of Modern Painting." Hung side by side were selected modern paintings from Manet to Dali and the i) older European pictures, 2) primitive pictures, 3) ancient pictures, 4) Japanese prints or 5) photographs with which they were definitely linked in style. No mere repetition of the now familiar facts and Grade A names, the show included such juxtapositions as an early Gauguin and a Kate
...armament supplies available for her poorly armed Southern neighbor. Secondly, the Brazilian Pact may set in motion a series of United States, Latin-American trade arrangements that will change the whole complexion of the South American situation. The closer the Pan-American ties become, the less the danger of European totalitarian philosophy, and the brighter the future of freedom and free trade, at least in the Western Hemisphere...