Word: europeans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barcelona, the official Leftist newsorgan Vanguardia warned that Portuguese colonies may go where the Sudetenland has gone unless something is done to check "the new iniquity now incubating within the heads of the dictators of European policy." Vanguardia followed this by making friendly overtures to Portuguese Dictator Salazar, who ever since the Spanish war began has sided with General Franco, encouraging German and Italian freighters and war craft to use Portuguese facilities in taking troops and supplies to Spanish Rightists. Keynoted Vanguardia unexpectedly: "All Spaniards...
...Leftist Government disclosed that a scheme to partition Spain-rejected by Barcelona-had been brought up at the Munich parley. During the Czechoslovak crisis General Franco showed himself definitely cool to Germany. Berlin was enraged by an announcement from Burgos that it would remain neutral in case of a European war. This week the Rightist Spanish Government announced that it is "preparing immediate repatriation" of 10,000 Italian troops...
...last week and Mr. Chamberlain went fishing. It had been a titan's task to win brief leisure for this favorite recreation of Britain's best-known brother of the angle and Prime Minister. His method is to get things done by businesslike steps. First, he averted European war by Czechoslovak dismemberment. Second, he won a vote of confidence on this act last week, 366 to 144, in the House of Commons. Third, he averted strife in his Conservative Party by postponing indefinitely the annual Party Conference which was to have been held last week. And fourth...
Miss Mary Endicott, a daughter of U. S. Secretary of War in the first administration of President Cleveland, by becoming the third wife of Old Joe (twice a widower) helped him reach this final conclusion of his maturity: although Anglo-German accord is indispensable to European peace, the edifice requires to be supported by a flying buttress 3,000 miles long in the form of an alliance or entente of the U. S. with Britain and Germany...
Born in Russia in 1878, Pianist Gabrilowitsch was a European celebrity at the age of 20. But his mature years as a concert artist were closely bound up with the U. S. From 1900 on he made some 25 U. S. concert tours. Eventually he made the U. S. his permanent home, became a U. S. citizen, married a U. S. woman, Clara Clemens, concert-singing daughter of Author Mark Twain...