Word: fears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russia's strength and peaceful intentions at a dinner for British industrialists, launching stories of negotiations unique in diplomatic history for their repeated reports of success unaccompanied by any concrete results. In the next week Britain was reported to be: 1) weighing a Soviet pact; 2) conquering her fear of Communism; 3) considering Russia's attitude favorable; 4) rejecting Russia's proposal for a six-power conference as premature. By the end of March Russia was reported: 1) to be pleased by the British stand on Poland; 2) to see Britain yielding; 3) to be ready...
...Wohlthat was said to be impressed with Britain's changed "firm attitude" toward further aggression and to have expressed his fear of war. Secretary Hudson agreed, and then, as one economist to another, expounded the theory that only drastic financial measures could better the situation. Before they had talked for many hours, they had drafted an agreement, the gist of which was that in return for Adolf Hitler's good behavior Great Britain would see that Germany had access to world markets and to raw materials. To help the Third Reich turn its swords into plowshares an international...
...show that Londoners no longer need to live in deadly fear of air raids, the City of Westminster (where Parliament, Westminster Abbey, Whitehall, Buckingham Palace are situated) opened for inspection eight elaborate systems of concrete-lined, covered trenches...
...present world crisis is not due to bad heredity, nor to inexorable nature, nor to the Devil, but to bad education in cultivating habits of fear, intolerance and hate of alien individuals and races, of foreign religions, nations and ideologies...
Last week French newspapermen got the shock of their professional lives. Two of them were arrested for having been in cahoots with foreign propagandists. French journalists, sensitive about their profession's reputation, were spared the unpleasant task of reporting the arrests in detail because of fear of the official secrets act. But rumors of spies, Nazi agents, alarmists, panic-mongers and scandals they could print. They printed so many that papers were crammed with vague reports of the doings of "30 highly placed Paris journalists," "two Germans," an unknown investment broker, two German princesses and 150 others rumored...