Word: far
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people of this country can thank God they have a Congress that hasn't made the mistake thus far of intervening in present affairs in China or of being the ally of anybody...
...realize that "indirect aggression might be just as dangerous as direct aggression and all three desire to find a satisfactory method of providing against it." Britain and France would consequently send military missions to Russia to begin staff talks. Clear-cut as these disclosures were, they would have been far more impressive had correspondents not counted so many unhatched eggs in the four-and-a-half months before they were made...
While it was obvious that the long-awaited showdown between militarists as represented by the generals and Falangists (Fascists), headed by Señor Serraño, was not far off, it was less obvious which side Generalissimo Franco, umpire of the showdown, would favor. It would suit the purposes of the old-time generals to have the monarchy restored; the Falangists are against restoration. Some indication that the Generalissimo, once a stanch Monarchist, was favoring restoration came in the report that the Duke of Maura, now living in Portugal, has been dispatched by General Franco to see former King...
Against such a background neither Mr. Nash nor his Labor Government was expected to get much sympathy from London's big financiers, who are far more interested in interest payments than in social experiments. The liberal British weekly New Statesman and Nation likened Mr. Nash in the City (London's Wall Street) to Daniel in the lions' den, recalled how badly both the British Labor Government of 1929-31 and the French Popular Front Government of 1936-38 had fared at the hands of the big bankers. There were predictions that before Mr. Nash could renew...
...far as the language used furthers the writer's intended effect, it is good; so far as it fails to further that effect, it is bad, no matter how 'correct...