Word: evens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knows this better than the German people. For the peace treaty of Versailles imposed burdens . . . which could not have been paid off even in a hundred years, although it has been proved precisely by American teachers of constitutional law, historians and professors of history that Germany was no more to blame for the outbreak of the war than any other nation...
...fine opening to shoot over the Roosevelt shoulder at Woodrow Wilson, and students of debate could but admire the adroitness with which he seized this opening. Herr Hitler has never been noted for humor. To some unsung ghostwriter, perhaps, was due an Iron Cross for supplying cracks that made even non-Nazis smile wryly and which put Debater Hitler at least level with Debater Roosevelt in man-to-man repartee...
Ambassador Saito more or less endeared himself to the U. S. by drinking Scotch whisky and playing poker. Ambassador Kensuke Horinouchi's technique is even more bland, more thoroughly Americanized than that of his late classmate at the Imperial University. His conversation, like his countenance, is smooth and affable. A 28-year career man, aged 53, he was embassy secretary in London during the War, worked on the peace treaties afterwards. He was consul-general in Manhattan from 1931 to 1934, with homes in Greenwich, Conn, and on Park Avenue. Golf is his game; drinking and smoking...
...common benefits of trade alone should be enough to guarantee this. American-Japanese commerce survived the depression years in good shape, even reaching some new peaks. Except for the British Empire, we are your best customer...
...Europe.' Why does this thought persist and grow . . .? Norway, Sweden,Denmark, Holland, Switzerland and Spain stayed out of the last war. There were 55,000,000 people living in democracies at the very door of the war in Europe. If they could stay out . . . why must we even lend ourselves to the thought that we cannot stay out? . . ." Gerald Nye did not give his opinion of the former stay-outers' chances of staying out next time...