Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...explained the details of the starting of the present war,--how Hitler suddenly found unbearable a non-aggression pact with Poland, which three months before had been publicly solidified by a speech in Warsaw of German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop...
...seems doubtful if this theory is an adequate approach to the problem. America faces a difficult job in staying neutral, and the teaching of pro-Allied interpretations of the war will not help. If America is to stay calm in the face of foreign fire, it would do well to go on teaching both sides of the question as it has in the past. Contrary to some belief, there still are two sides...
...Italy's foreign policy," says Harold Nicolson, British M. P., essayist, novelist, onetime diplomat, "is to acquire by negotiation an importance greater than can be supplied by her own physical strength. It is thus the antithesis of the German system, since instead of basing diplomacy on power she bases power on diplomacy. It is the antithesis of the French system, since instead of striving to secure permanent allies against a permanent enemy, she regards her allies and her enemies as interchangeable. It is the antithesis of the British system, since it is not durable credit that she seeks...
This castor-oil operation may, as the Italian press claimed, merely have removed faithful servants so that other faithful servants might have their hour. But foreign commentators could not help noticing an obvious common denominator: the important purgees were strongly pro-Axis. Only ministers left were Foreign Minister Count Ciano, popular Minister of Justice Dino Grandi, Premier Mussolini himself (War, Navy, Air, Interior), and three others-the neutrality bloc. Italy, it seemed, wanted no entangling alliances...
...Roosevelt, brooding over his bed-breakfast, decided to resurrect a long-laid ghost-that of the "White House spokesman." Unghostly, cherry-cheeked Secretary Steve Early got the call. Spokesmanlike, he asked the U. S. Press to consider the "timing" of Russian Premier Molotov's blast at U. S. foreign policy-on the day of a crucial House vote on the 1939 Neutrality Act. Later that day the White House released without comment past correspondence between President Roosevelt and U. S. S. R. President Kalinin, in which Mr. Kalinin thanked Mr. Roosevelt for a non-aggression proposal to Adolf Hitler...