Word: goings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Australia answered through Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies, "If Britain is forced to war, she will not go alone. Australia stands where she stood 25 years...
What Poland had to watch calmly last week (with not nearly enough gas masks to go around, due to the Government's all-for-the-Army emergency economy) was a succession of border intrusions, in which many observers saw true Nazi rhythm. From Germany, from East Prussia, even by air from Free Danzig, came Nazi "gangs" to provoke the alert Polish guards into brief scuffles from which four deaths resulted-extreme casualties of the war of nerves. At week's end the Polish radio, protesting that "the limit of Polish patience is very near," turned from straightforward reporting...
...went to deliver Fisherman Franklin Roosevelt's peace appeal last week. Personally insignificant but institutionally of as great importance to Italians as George VI is to Britons, King Vittorio Emmanuele thanked Mr. Roosevelt for his idea, promised to convey it to his Government. He had not far to go. Northward on the same train with Mr. Phillips had traveled Son-in-Law Ciano, ostensibly just to get a Collar of the Annunciata from His Majesty for his "brilliant" work as Foreign Minister. The Count also returned to Rome on Mr. Phillips' heels, and before week...
Slight, grey-haired, slack-chinned General Ismet Inönü, right hand man and successor to the late, great Mustafa Kama! Atatürk, is peculiar among statesmen in that he is quite deaf. President Ismet Inönü, who in his soldiering days wanted to go on fighting the Greeks long after The Atatürk knew he had been whipped, is also quite fearless. Last week into the deaf ears of this master of the Dardanelles poured blandishments, at his stout heart were hurled threats, as Ambassador Franz von Papen sought to detach Turkey from...
...Japanese, such intolerable arrogance could not go unanswered. The Cabinet met, announced its decision: "An independent foreign policy." Japan would take on the world...