Word: good
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the League met, up rose Sweden's delegate, Bosten Unden, to express a wish of his Government endorsed, he said, by Britain: even though good offices had so far collapsed like chunks of snow against Soviet steel, one more effort should be made to achieve peace by request. The League agreed. A special committee drafted a note inviting Russia to cease hostilities and let the League mediate. Richard Austen Butler, head of the British delegation, suggested that some limit must be set; accordingly a reply was requested within 24 hours...
...normal status of National Socialist legal thinking to thinking in terms of the law of war is being accomplished without grave upheavals. . . . The decisive principle is, who is stronger, who is more determined, who has better nerves? Whoever does not admit this is a pale theorist and is no good for politics or, in the deepest sense, for creative law-giving...
With agony-column ads such as these, hungry Germans are pathetically trying to wangle at least one good meal during the Christmas holidays. The blockade of the Reich, already as tight as Great Britain and France are able to make it, is becoming still more drastic due to war in the Baltic, and, if the Balkans blaze up too in a Soviet grab at Bessarabia, German scarcity may soon be back to the bare bones of 1918. Significantly, last week, Vierjahresplan, official magazine of Reich Economic Four-Year Plan Director Hermann Wilhelm Göring, declared: "We must face...
Sick Men. Behavior of their maddened troops is a source of great shame to responsible men in the Japanese Army and Government. Along his way, White learned some good reasons for that behavior. He was told that most of the Japanese soldiers in Shansi have been there over two years. They have had no furlough, no home leave, not even a Peking weekend...
...asked to die. Cowardice was common-'kai pa' ('I'm afraid') was heard on every hand. But the present Chinese Army has spirit. It glows. The men are willing to die. They mix and tangle with the Japanese with a burning hate that is good...