Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...person who still remembered Sparks Rogers' heroism was his good-natured new chief, Lieutenant Vincent Doyle, also a retired ship radio operator. The Doyles and Rogerses struck up a warm friendship. When Lieutenant Doyle's little daughter was taken ill, the lieutenant lunched every day with the Rogers family. Whenever Mrs. Rogers baked a cake, her husband took a piece to the Doyles. And it soon became clear that, if anything happened to Vincent Doyle, George Rogers would probably inherit his $3,200-a-year...
...great friend of mine!" Der Führer continued, "I should like to express to the great Italian statesman in the name of the German people, and my own name, our warmest thanks. We know what Mussolini's attitude has meant to Germany in these days. . . . Indissoluble friendship! The land and frontiers of this friend are to us inviolable. The Italian people know that the German nation supports my word...
...excesses. When he was not involving himself with various women, he wrote operas and attacked critics who had been particularly bitter against his revolutionary music. Any unfavorable criticism was unfair and the man responsible was either intentionally malicious or else bribed. Few of his friends lasted long, their friendship often depending on whether they were willing and able to lend him money. An egoist through and through, he hated men who disagreed with him, and accepted those who flattered him. Nothing outside his own life, his own problems, interested him--the music of others was not worth listening...
...treaty with Italy is working to the satisfaction of both countries. Our relations with Germany developed during the past year in a spirit of understanding and mutual respect. We reaffirm our friendship with France and have good relations with our partners in the Little Entente [Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia & Rumania]. We have assumed no new obligations that would conflict with old ones. We have maintained all our alliances and gained new friends. We are surrounded now by friends...
Like historians, the papers tell us that, Austria has no longer a name of its own, that on April tenth the "free" plebiscite will be an inevitable Nazi victory, that Italy is dubious about Germany's friendship. When these facts are scrambled together with others, the mixture, for one thing, shows that the European situation is little different from what it was before the First World War. England and France are still inseparable; England will not stand by and watch Germany make her a secondary power, and France, if Blum can keep her government upright, will fight to prevent Nazi...