Word: fronted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them that Britain had no stomach for a dispute in the Far East, Chiang insisted. In fact, Japanese troops were this week within half a mile of the borders of Hong Kong, inside which they accidentally popped a few shells, as Chinese regulars, out to recapture Canton, pushed their front to within 40 miles of the city...
First-rate Orator Dr. Robert Ley, führer of the Labor front of 20 million German workers (who have to take him as their trade union boss whether they like him or not), declared last week: "The resurgence of the German people had three stages: first, unification under a Führer; second, the bursting of the Versailles bonds; third, exposure of the Jewish enemy and the battle with...
...Wrong. Dr. Ley did not forget that he was addressing, among other German workers, many more or less devout Catholics, all of whom know that Pope Pius XI has taken the strongest stand against anti-Semitism and inferentially against Naziism (TIME, Aug. 14). Attacking His Holiness directly, Labor Front Ley blasphemed: "The Pope is wrong because he recognizes only one Catholic race. But Almighty God was not so papal as the Pope. He made differences among races! There are positive and negative elements in the human race and the negative can exist only as parasites?as witness the Jews...
Squarejawed, square-shouldered Premier Edouard Daladier is always chiefly interested in defense and so are many other Frenchmen. Last week the Premier was under pressures amounting to attack on the French internal and also on the French external front. He resolutely prepared his defenses, and in doing so was assisted by the British Prime Minister in person, the first working trip to Paris by an incumbent of No. 10 Downing Street since the days of James Ramsay MacDonald, the Laborite apostle of the League who generally only sped through Paris on his way out to Geneva or home...
Labor Boss Jouhaux might have chosen to order a General Strike when Premier Daladier broke up the French Popular Front (TIME, Nov. 7), or on account of the "rape of Czechoslovakia," or immediately after Daladier announced his latest batch of decree-laws. In fact, a Labor leader chooses to general-strike when he gets a hunch he can win. It was on such a hunch that Labor Tsar Jouhaux acted last week. He has his desk in the control tower of the French General Labor Confederation's renovated, seven-story Paris "skyscraper." There last week he telephoned, telegraphed...