Word: evens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grumble because he always leaves the Commons immediately after his orations, never waiting to hear lesser orators express themselves. Amateur gardeners near his estate in Churt, Surrey, also grumble that his great fame, not his great flowers, takes so many flower show prizes away from others. But even these complaints are testimony to the fact that David Lloyd George has been one of the foremost men of his time, and that at 76 he is still a fine figure...
...efficiency, but the next year when he was Prime Minister, he was scolded for meddling in military matters about which he knew very little. Ever since the War he has been criticized for helping to bungle the Versailles Treaty. He has been criticized for his terrific ambition, his impetuousness, even for his long mane and exaggerated cloaks...
Meantime his decisions are based on the opinions of an ever-narrowing group of advisers. The adoring Nazi Deputy Leader Rudolf Hess, who follows his leader even in his moods, is still constantly at his side. But the Führer has become so inaccessible to most of his Cabinet that only Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Dr. Goebbels are now able to ask for and get private interviews. Five-sevenths along his Biblically allotted span of life, this strange man has at least the satisfaction of knowing that he has become the most formidable political tactician...
...told, was the return of the interned Republican fleet from Bizerte, Tunisia, the French protectorate, where it had fled in the closing days of the war. On this point the French gave in and General Franco's sailors sailed away with the fleet without bothering to pay even port charges...
...afraid to demobilize. A Paris dispatch to the New York Times told of troubles the fascist-minded Spaniards (including the Generalissimo) were having with the Carlists, the monarchy-loving Spaniards of northern Spain. Instead of giving up their arms, Carlists have been hiding them. Carlists have been even more vociferous than Britons in demanding the departure of the Italians, who if anything are more unpopular in northern Spain than Germans. So fearful was Dictator Franco of Carlist trouble that soon after the Loyalist surrender he hastily sent back to Spanish Morocco 80,000 Moorish regulars commanded by able General Juan...