Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germans share one trait of the worst-they only accept the word of Germans. The rest of the human race for them consists of four or five billion Jews, who cannot be expected to do justice to Germans. Only through the pressure of Germans will Germany be changed. This fact may teach a hard lesson, but it is one that will have to be learned. When Germans universally find that the universe detests their masters, and that precisely these masters-no one else-have made life unbearable for them, then we may look for a change, and not before...
...rights in China must be preserved, was "not responsive." Japan had talked vastly and vaguely about a "new situation" in China. As in the case of Germany, there was absolutely nothing the State Department could do except perhaps send another, sharper note, and get back another, vaguer reply. Simple fact of the matter was that for the first time since the clipper-ship era of which Franklin Roosevelt is so fond, the first time since Commodore Perry opened Japan to U. S. trade in 1854, and since Roosevelt I made growing Japan a U. S. protege in its first struggle...
...just as "there is room both for Germany and ourselves in the trade" with East Europe, there was room for Britain and Japan in China. "China," said the Businessman Prime Minister, "cannot be developed into a real market without the influx of a great deal of capital, and the fact that so much capital is being destroyed during the war means that even more will have to be introduced after the war is over. It is quite certain that it cannot be supplied by Japan...
Also militating against the appointment of a Westerner is the fact that the West was so discourteous to the New Deal in the last election. Together with diminishing the President's hopes for a third term, that election is reported to have angered the Chief Executive, and he is not considered likely to be in the mood for conciliating the West...
...fact should the Martians attack in the vicinity of Cambridge, there seems to be adequate space and equipment to keep everyone in the University safe from bombing. Why should Harvard men have recourse to the subway when they have a cleaner place to go? Madrid University students should have adopted the House plan long...