Word: firebrands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Firebrand Eaton...
Despite the fact that Roman Catholic bishops have warned their German flocks against Catholic Hitler, terming him a firebrand contemptuous of authority, rumors soon sprang up in Berlin that enough Catholic Deputies of the Centre would vote with the Fascists and Nationalists to give Herren Hitler & Hugenberg an absolute majority with control of the Prussian Diet...
...taking place. From Washington Hon. Henry L. Stimson sent notes to China and Japan urging them to confine military operations to "the requirements of international law," thus tacitly refusing to invoke the famed Kellogg Pact. Outside China all this seemed perhaps academic, dull. To Chinese "students," young firebrand-patriots who are the leaven in China's lump, it seemed: 1) that the Great Powers had betrayed China into Japan's hands; 2) that in appealing to the Powers gullible Chinese Foreign Minister C. T. Wang had made this betrayal possible. For him, Death! In the streets of Nanking...
...faced, bespectacled, he is a poet and international journalist. He founded the Jewish Legion of the British Army, fought in Palestine during the World War, was imprisoned in the fortress of Acco for leading a Jewish defense corps against Arab attackers in Jerusalem in 1920. Viewed now as a firebrand, he is forbidden to return to Palestine...
...Athenaeum Club in Madrid, crowds cheered wildly when the Republican firebrand Professor Miguel de Unamuno sputtered...