Word: europeans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...force (TIME, May 18, 1936 et ante), and claimed that the words the U. S. (Ambassador wished to insert are "historically incorrect." Grey & graceful Norman Hezekiah Davis then subsided; the note was sent off to Tokyo; the Conference rose until Japan should see fit to reply, and its chief European delegates departed to their own capitals, leaving underlings to act in Brussels. Members of the U. S. delegation said that Ambassador Davis was "digging in at Brussels," prepared to stay as long as President Roosevelt thinks necessary...
...Tokyo paper reported that the Japanese Government would reject the Brussels Conference's proposals, Nichi Nichi adding that the Conference had better advise China to approach Japan directly and sue for peace. Adolf Hitler, having kept completely mum and kept Germany out of the Conference, was conceded by European observers to be building up a position of technical aloofness to which Japanese and Chinese might ultimately turn, should they decide that One Man can mediate better than a Conference...
Significance. Poland was not expected by competent European observers last week to sign the anti-Comintern Pact, since for Polish Dictator Edward Smigly-Rydz this would be equivalent to sticking his head between the jaws of his neighbor the Russian Bear, while giving it a clout in the ribs...
Nightly the European ether is filled with rival government propaganda in the form of distorted news broadcasts. Save only France, every Continental power engages in this practice of poisoning men's minds. Because even so far away as New Zealand British citizens are fed honeyed. anti-British words from Berlin and Rome, Great Britain fortnight ago decided to supply an antidote. It announced that British Broadcasting Corporation would begin to send out "straight news" in seven languages to undeceive misinformed mankind...
...which the art map has been enlarged are geographic-Chinese, Japanese and Indian art; and temporal- the prehistoric art of the cave dwellers, the Sumerians, Hittites, Assyrians, Egyptians. These Author Cheney illuminates at length, scrupulously giving facts, interpretation and speculation for what they are worth. In this perspective, European art and artists assume new proportions and come under new categories. Reasons appear for praising El Greco more than Botticelli and Raphael. But though Author Cheney thus revaluates Western art by a universal standard of "formal values," he recognizes the greatness of illustrative, objective art. By the time a reader arrives...