Word: europeans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They had nothing to gain by surrendering, little to lose personally by fighting. The Madrid-Valencia area could not be expected to hold out long against a full-bodied Franco attack, but in the meanwhile the world situation might change. The Loyalists still had some money. And a general European war between the Fascist and democratic powers could still save their cause...
Nothing could have delighted the European democracies more and nothing could have been less pleasing to the dictatorships than the report last week that President Roosevelt had told a Senate Committee that the U. S. defense frontiers were in France (see p. 12). The French and British press shouted with joy, while the totalitarian press of Germany and Italy outdid all previous efforts in denouncing Mr. Roosevelt and all he stood...
Paying tribute to the Army that "fought so long against such odds," Dr. Negrin attacked the European democracies (especially Great Britain) for turning their backs on Republican Spain. He revealed that his Government, forced to buy contraband munitions wherever it could, had bought some from Germany and Italy, its mortal enemies. "If we lose Catalonia, we shall continue to fight in the central part of Spain," the Premier said. "Nations live not only by victories, but also by the examples they give their people." The Premier's war aims were unanimously approved by the Cortes...
...Lunt and Lynn Fontanne delighted New York City theatre audiences three years ago. On the stage, Idiot's Delight presented the fragmentary romance between an itinerant U. S. hoofer and the fake-Russian mistress of a munitions maker, in an Italian border hotel on the eve of a European war. All this added up to an amusing and superficially penetrating indictment of totalitarian politics. Whenever Hollywood touches material of this sort, it stirs up a tremendous agitation about whether or not the cinema will be courageous enough to retain the meaning of the original. In the case of Idiot...
Last week there arrived in the U. S. an account of a Sunday service at the Circus Krone, a European outfit in London, in which the animals were blessed with full Roman Catholic ritual. Thus a new British organization, the Catholic Circus Guild, made its bow. Dominican Father Cyprian Rice preached a sermon; another Dominican, Prior Antoninus Maguire, sprinkled holy water from an aspergillum on a tiger, a trained Pekingese, some horses and six pretty little albino donkeys. Three large brown bears were brought in, pushed into seats, blessed and photographed, looking clumsily reverent and infinitely...