Word: europeans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years of life," rasped the veteran Virginian, "have I known or heard of a more humiliating spectacle than that presented by the legislative body of a great, rich and powerful nation spending months in devising expedients to contravene immemorial requirements of international law through positive fear of a Central European assassin...
...face a war of nerves. Abruptly called home for a diplomatic council of war were the Kingdom's envoys to Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria. Of these, astute Vasile Stoica, Ambassador to Turkey, had most to contribute to the question which last week preoccupied all Eastern European statesmen: Will the Soviet Union, fresh from sharing in the partition of Poland and successful in extending "spheres of influence" over the Baltic States, now attempt similar expansionist moves in the Balkans...
Another entry from Thomas Beck's stable meanwhile made news of a different color. To its staff of European correspondents Collier's added a cartoonist: brilliant, New Zealand-born David Low, political caricaturist for the London Evening Standard. Low will send Collier's a weekly drawing from London via radio...
...does without fall--it always fights for English interests. I think the American navy, which on account of its guns and strategically location is now more powerful than any other navy, should do likewise for America. It seems clear to me that if we fear a war with a European power or a concert of European and Asiatic powers, the thing for us to do is to let their others extend their lines of supply and fight here. If France and England couldn't help Poland, how can France, England, Germany, Italy, and Russia together invade a prepared and well...
...cynicism of 1918-1939 the increased bitterness of feeling arising out of another involvement? Those destructive and cynical elements found to a considerable extent in Fascism, Nazism, Communism, and full Machiavellian movements are the products of this confusion. Americans are psychologically even more susceptible to these than the European peoples from which we came. This statement may be demonstrated by any serious study...