Word: generalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Salvation Army mobilized for peace-prayer services throughout the world. In London spry, 72-year-old General Evangeline Booth led 500 of her followers to a hall on the bank of the Thames, put them through prayer-drill with martial commands, "Shut your eyes!" "Clasp your hands!" "Get down on your knees!" "Stand...
...minuscule extreme Nationalist Right and Communist Left. Joseph Stalin appeared, to the French, to have taken in Russia none of the propaganda measures which would have been necessary last week if the Soviet people were to be asked to fight in case Czechoslovakia were attacked. In the general queasy fear of war (and especially of being bombed) which has gripped so many Europeans, the Scandinavian States were actually busy at Geneva last week trying to get the League Covenant reinterpreted so that in no case would any country be "bound" to apply sanctions, which instead would be declared "optional...
Lady C. in London last week disclaimed political activity, remarked that, as chairman of the General Relief Fund for Distressed Spanish Women and Children (both Leftists and Rightists), it was natural enough for her to go to Spain. "I was favorably impressed," said she, "with conditions in the districts I visited." Retorted the Leftist spokesman of the Spanish Embassy in London: "If she is as interested in Government Spain as in Franco Spain, why didn't she include Government Spain in her tour?" Admitting that she was receiving hundreds of letters from irate Leftists, the conservative Prime Minister...
...torn Spain became a mere spectator last week as both belligerent armies virtually halted their small-scale war to watch the deepening European crisis. Leftist authorities believed that both sides in Spain would be weakened by a general European war, the Rightists because Germany and Italy would withdraw their generous aid from Generalissimo Franco, the Leftists because not only would they have little chance of receiving further Soviet aid, but Britain and other maritime powers would commandeer for their own use the tramp steamers which now run food and gasoline to Barcelona and Valencia. Leftists believed, however, that they would...
...Fortnight ago, however, this record was rudely broken when Chilean Nazis, members of the storm-trooping Nacista (Nazi) Party, staged a revolt. It lasted four hours. When the shooting stopped, 62 persons were dead. Arrested were Führer Jorge Gonzalez von Marees and popular old General Carlos Ibáñez, a former dictator, who was the Nazis' Presidential candidate...