Word: europeans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Geneva, Lausanne, Montreux, Nyon. Last week, the gay French resort of Evian-les-Bains was added to the list as delegates from 32 nations, including three world powers (U. S., France, Britain), four British Dominions (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Eire), most of the Latin American nations and several smaller European powers, there set up headquarters in the luxurious Hotel Royal. They came in answer to President Roosevelt's invitation, issued soon after Germany annexed Austria, to see what could be done to provide new homes for racial and political refugees. Germany was not invited; Italy, out of sympathy...
...memories of that period were powerfully stirred by an exhibition of 20th Century German Art held at the New Burlington Galleries. Most of the recollections were melancholy. For at the gallery was plain evidence that modern German art has traced a more tragic course than that of any other European country. Still living in Berlin slums. Käthe Kollwitz reached her 71st birthday as the show opened, remained the best German woman artist. Also shown was the work of mild, good-natured Max Liebermann, who died three years ago after his work was banned, not because it was abstract...
France joined last week the growing list of European nations which prescribe the death penalty for peacetime espionage...
...last week demanded that the Chamberlain Government employ naval protection for British merchantmen venturing into Leftist Spam's ports. Bluntly, the Prime Minister replied: to bring the British navy into play would mean active intervention in the conflict, and his Government were determined not to risk the general European war which might result. Furthermore, Mr. Chamberlain admitted, almost casually, "While the war lasts we must expect a succession of these incidents...
...week by solid statistics. Partly as a result of neighborliness, largely because of the reciprocal trade treaties of Secretary of State Cordell Hull, U. S. exports to Latin America as a whole increased last year from 40% to 90% in value. Those pessimists who have believed that the totalitarian European states were gaining political and economic influence south of the Rio Grande were surprised to hear that in the same period Nazi Germany's trade increased less than 30%, Fascist Italy...