Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...activity has taken place on Spain's Madrid front. Last week, at several points southeast of Madrid on the Jarama River, Leftists repulsed small isolated Rightist punches. To some observers these attacks were regarded as feelers preliminary to a new Rightist offensive aimed at encircling Spain's former capital...
Last week in Hankow up popped Father Jacquinot once more to establish another area for refugees. He beat the Japanese into the city, arranged to use the French Concession and former British, German and Russian Concessions as his "safety zone." Into the area he hurried 100,000 Chinese who chose to remain...
Fortunately the No. 1 French Mayor, famed Edouard Herriot of Lyon (220 miles up the Rhone above Marseille), was attending the Radical Socialist Party Congress. Huge Mayor-and-former-Premier Herriot, who looks as though fit to burst with the famed cuisine of Lyon, promptly rang up his city hall, ordered: "Put some of our Lyon fire engines on railway flatcars and rush them here...
...will never attempt to solve the colonial problem by military force," barked General von Epp. "When Hitler told Chamberlain at Berchtesgaden, and again at Godesberg, that the colonial question remained a problem, he officially opened the negotiations. Our claim is to all our former colonies. Whether, when the actual moment for bargaining for them comes, we shall show restraint is for the future to decide. If we do, then we shall demand compensation for whatever we do not claim...
...British poll of public opinion by the Gallup method last week, 85% of Britons queried were against return of any former German colonies to the Reich, and 78% answered "Yes" to the question Would you rather fight than hand them back...