Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Favor Federal Relief...
...Secretary of State Hull came out in favor of Government-subsidized barter trade by the U. S., to whip the Dictators at their own economic game. Joseph P. Kennedy, Ambassador to Britain, received mention for barterer-in-chief...
Alarms. By lining up on their side Eastern European countries from the Baltic to the Aegean, the British and French did much to restore the balance of power that had recently been weighted heavily in the dictators' favor. They also convinced many an observer that war had been made inevitable. When the British guarantee to Poland was announced three weeks ago, the Axis answered by the seizure of Albania. With Greece and Rumania added to the Peace Front last week, all Europe knew that it was again Hitler's and Mussolini's move. The German press screamed...
...call on His Holiness, Pope Pius XII, not once but twice. One interview lasted 45 minutes. Its burden: Rome and Berlin having been politically hyphenated while the King was on the throne, there was nothing he personally could do about splitting the combination; but perhaps if he abdicated in favor of his son, Italy might stand a better chance of escaping from the axis. Would Pius XII put either his Papal blessing or his political okay on such a succession...
Although the U. S. is almost 100% in favor of China against Japan, contributions to China relief agencies are relatively as scarce as news of Chinese victories-today scarce indeed. U. S. sympathizers contributed more than $2,000,000 to Spain during its late war, but they have given much less to China; to the Church Committee for China Relief, only $268,709 since its founding last summer. John R. Mott, vice chairman of the Committee, declares that in China is "the greatest area and volume of relatively unrelieved human suffering of modern times"-30,000,000 people in need...