Word: exertion
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...little future hope for the ASU, but our stand should be determined by what the Caucus members feel. If we win, the fight has only begun since those of us who were at the convention realize that the liberals must have an organizational framework if they are to exert their strength...
...Army is kept fighting for any length of time the Russians will obviously cut down on the supplies they have promised to send the Nazis. Adolf Hitler's own Völkischer Beobachter, observed in cold approval of Russia's course: "Strong powers are only forced to exert pressure on the weak when malicious and selfish advisers mislead a weak power to refrain from adjusting its neighborly relations." The whole Nazi press echoed the Berliner Börsen-Zeitung's charge: "It was Britain who first made the Baltic countries, especially Finland, strategically interesting to Russia...
...favors aid to the Chinese in their fight for independence. Loans to China should be renewed, and the Administration should exert pressure on munition manufacturers to stop sending supplies to Japan, he believes...
Japan cannot exert pressure on Western Powers in the South Seas until they stop pressing her in North China. This week the British delighted Japan by announcing imminent withdrawal of British troops from North China, on the flimsy pretext that they are needed in Europe. The British force, which has been a whole lot of cold water on the hot Japanese garrison at Tientsin, will be only a tiny drop in the B. E. F. bucket...
...Yugoslavia; another (Elizabeth) to Greece. She hoped that a third (Ileana) would marry Bulgaria, but King Boris did not press his suit when it was gossiped about that Ileana was Prince Stirbey's, and not King Ferdinand's, daughter. Through her daughters Queen Marie hoped to exert powerful influence throughout the Balkans; through her eldest son she planned on ruling Rumania...