Word: far
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Göring-beg pardon, Field Marshal Göring, who is one of the few Germans who has been having a pretty good time for the last few years-says that we have been spared so far because Nazi Germany is so humane. . . . When we remember the bestial atrocities they have committed in Poland, we do not feel we wish to ask for any favors...
...Someone on the inside had a hand in the affair. All was far from well in self-encircled Germany last week, and in the beer-hall gathering there were old-line Nazis, bred on anti-Communist doctrine and bitter about the Russian pact; ambitious, frustrated Party chiefs; veterans still rankling over such ruthless purges as that of Ernst Roehm...
Most of last week's European happenings were bad news for Germany. Her friends became increasingly critical. Her allies appeared lukewarm, if not positively fickle. Her enemies were unsparing, and, after the Munich bombing, her home front appeared far from secure. In sum, it looked as though Nazi Germany, having long feared and dreaded encirclement, had managed to kick herself in her domestic stomach and encircle herself...
Back in September 1929, when world prosperity still nourished world idealism, that great dreamer Aristide Briand started talking about "The United States of Europe." He even went so far as to send a circular to 26 Governments asking them what they thought about federation. Only three were enthusiastic. Their names are significant: Poland, Czecho-Slovakia, Yugoslavia...
...Founder's Day of Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, British Ambassador to the U. S. Lord Lothian-who so far has got neatly over every hurdle that might offend U. S. public opinion-proposed "unity of nations under law, with government possessed of police powers." Totalitarian imperialism must be ended, he said, and the weaknesses of democracy corrected. "Democracy was right in its insistence on liberty and personal responsibility, but in practice the free peoples have abused the freedom it has given them by turning it, as St. Paul says, to uses of the flesh. . . . The leaders of democracy...