Word: everly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fort Worth, Tex., he accepted a sombrero and said: "This is the nearest thing to Jimmy Walker [his playboy predecessor] that I've ever...
...Highness the Maharaja of Bikaner was among the first to accept as a matter of course last week that Britain would soon be at war, cabled to King George VI: "I and my subjects are ever prepared to shed our last drop of blood for His Imperial Majesty...
...State dinner for the Tsar of Bulgaria, was called to the telephone by Neville Chamberlain and invited to No. 10 Downing Street for a last round-up this week, France had already given and observed many signs which made decision easier. Before every war which France has ever actually entered, the spontaneous will of her people has sent them swirling through the streets with shouts which this week would have been "Vive la Czechoslovakie! Vive la Guerre!" but these shouts were not heard. The only French political parties whose organs urged war were those of the minuscule extreme Nationalist Right...
...Party Activity." This proclamation the Czechoslovak Cabinet studied for two hours, then decided it was treason. President Benes ordered not only the arrest of Henlein, now a fugitive, should he ever return, but also immediate confiscation of Sudeten Nazi Party funds and property including firearms. Nazi Deputies were not deprived of their parliamentary standing and immunity, but the President declared Parliament adjourned, and his decree enjoined all Nazis against "party activity." The north, east and south districts were still calm, but in the west bloody scuffles continued. The Government, in efforts to convince Sudeten Nazis that their game...
...Excepting one district with approximately the area of no square miles, no part of the present Czechoslovak Republic ever belonged to Imperial Germany. Konrad Henlein and over 99% of all Sudeten Germans alive before the Republic was founded were born subjects of the Habsburg Kaiser, not the Hohenzollern. Henlein's mother was a Czech, but to him, as to Austrian-born Hitler, there has never been any doubt that Germany is "home...