Word: foreignism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other spot in the U.S. from enemy bombs is an Army problem. That the Army does not expect North Carolina or any other State to be presently bombed is beside the Army's point. For when & if it goes to "defensive war"-whether at home or on foreign soil-it still must protect itself, its occupied areas and the civilian lives and properties thereon...
...Spain's northern frontier a smaller, less spectacular withdrawal of foreign fighters also took place. Into France went 350 cheering men of the International Brigades, until now a part of the Leftist Army. Surrounded by French Mobile Guards, they exchanged fists with French Leftists, shouted: "They didn't need us any more. They can win all by themselves!" Arriving in Barcelona to witness the complete evacuation of the remaining 8,000 International Brigade men was a League of Nations Commission of 19 members, which included Noel Field, U.S. member of the League's Permanent Disarmament Commission...
...then, can peace be restored to us? By re-establishing violated international law. Force the withdrawal of the invader. Restore to us our trampled-on rights as the legitimate Government. In a few months, perhaps in a few weeks, peace will come spontaneously." In short, without foreign intervention and with belligerent rights granted to the Government, the Leftists claim they could soon lick Generalissimo Franco...
...studied ambiguity of the 1917 declaration by Arthur James Balfour, British Foreign Secretary, can be attributed Britain's contradictory rule in the old Kingdoms of Israel and Judah. A one-sentence, 67-word declaration, it promised a "Jewish national homeland" but conspicuously failed to define whether a Jewish homeland meant a home with an Arab or a Jewish majority. At first high Arab leaders, equally lulled by Lord Balf our's vagueness, were inclined to welcome their "Semitic brothers" back to the Holy Land...
...hadn't meant to read that poem when he picks up his Kipling. And now he thought of young John Kipling of the Irish Guards, lying under a white wooden cross in his same "tireless soil." How did it go? "There is some spot on foreign ..." Vag checked himself. He wouldn't think about that. The hand of death had lain heavily on France, but there were parts it had not touched, parts where there were laughter and bright lights and crowded busses, parts where people danced all through the night and the sky was pink from the neon below...