Word: finale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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People in the U. S. quickly learned that neither Congress nor President has the final definition of "materials of war." As it did in the first World War, to the vexation of the U. S., Great Britain declared almost every conceivable necessity of life in wartime to be contraband and therefore subject to blockade (see p. 22), making paperwork of the Neutrality Act's precise delineations between military and non-military materials...
...World War I, the similar Ministry of Blockade did not really get the screws on before 1917. When it did, the results were accounted the greatest single factor leading to Germany's final collapse. The Blockaders under Lord Robert (later League-loving Viscount) Cecil gradually pushed neutrals into yielding belligerent Britain's right to have the Royal Navy arrest neutral shipping on the high seas, and "examine" its cargoes...
When the 21 independent countries of the Americas gathered at Lima last year to draw up an antitotalitarian pact, most of them were determined not to let El Hombre's delegate, Cordell Hull, run the show. Argentina in particular hemmed, took exception, offered substitute phrases. The final draft, a reluctant Argentine compromise, postulated the 21 countries' common interest, provided that in time of crisis the signatories would consult each other. When war broke out fortnight ago, Argentina did a complete about-face and put herself in the forefront of the rush to implement the Lima Declaration...
Friday, two days before their country declared war on Germany, they were ready. In the grey morning they marched to school, gathered for final instructions. Not knowing where he was going (each school was to take the first free train out), each child had a postcard, to be sent home when he arrived at his billet. On his clothes was sewn his name and address. A Mr. Brown's four children, aged 4 to 11, marched with their names printed in big letters on their backs. From London and 28 other cities, all through last weekend and this week...
...carillonneur's Oxford is the Belgian National Carillon School at Malines, Belgium. There, under the watchful eye of the greatest living carillonneur, 77-year-old Jef Denyn, the neophyte carillonneur gets his final polish and diploma. It takes four or five years of study to make a good carillonneur. The U. S. and Canada together have some 50 carillons, most of them scattered through cities of the East. Nearly all of them are played by old Jef Denyn pupils...