Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Giddy Puerto Ricans last week leaped to the conclusion that the U. S. was about to go to war, that they would have to fight for a Motherland that many of them love none too well. Basis of these rumors was a braided assemblage at Governor Blanton Winship's palace, La Fortaleza, in San Juan. Admiral Arthur Japy Hepburn arrived with a retinue of officers to look at Isla Grande, a 300-acre smudge in upper San Juan Harbor, to see whether it would be useful as a Caribbean naval and air base...
...Shreveport, La., he praised the "vision and courage" of Franklin Roosevelt, called for a united nation to fight Depression...
...political parties whose organs urged war were those of the minuscule extreme Nationalist Right and Communist Left. Joseph Stalin appeared, to the French, to have taken in Russia none of the propaganda measures which would have been necessary last week if the Soviet people were to be asked to fight in case Czechoslovakia were attacked. In the general queasy fear of war (and especially of being bombed) which has gripped so many Europeans, the Scandinavian States were actually busy at Geneva last week trying to get the League Covenant reinterpreted so that in no case would any country be "bound...
...Street talk secret for hours or days, the British and French chiefs smashed another precedent by having the gist of what they had said flashed to all the world immediately. M. Daladier was revealed, for example, to have readily agreed with Mr. Chamberlain's long exposition that to fight for Czechoslovakia would not save her but only result in twofold catastrophe. First, said Mr. Chamberlain, the Czech Army would massacre the Sudetens as traitors who would be caught between them and the German Army. Second, the Germans would have enough success in the first few days or weeks...
Throughout the crisis Czechoslovakia has behaved like civilized people, but no self-respecting person can blame them for mobilizing now in the face of total destruction. No man wants to be a vassal, and on real nation likes to lose its independence. If the Czechs fight, as it appears they will do, Russia's machine must throw its weight behind them. Then Hitler, faced with the anger of Czechs, Russians, French, and English, must either go to war or back down and submit to some reasonable, human settlement of this problem...