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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Russian bear growls at Great Britain nowadays, the British lion, instead of growling back, usually answers with a broad, friendly grin...
When the Red Army marched into Poland in late September many purists in international conduct thought that, since Britain had guaranteed Polish territorial integrity, in all logic Great Britain should immediately declare war against the U. S. S. R. Instead, pragmatic British statesmen quickly explained that the British Government's Polish guarantee applied only to German aggression and not to a Russian invasion. Winston Churchill even argued that what Comrade Stalin had done "was clearly necessary for the safety of Russia." And Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain indirectly approved of the First Lord's argument by conceding...
...trade delegation of 45 experts arrived in Berlin, headed by Commissar for Shipbuilding Ivan T. Tevosyan. They were entertained in state. At the Chancellery they drove past the huge bronze doors, were honored by a company of the Führer's bodyguard standing at attention, entered the great Chancellery hall lined with servants dressed in silver braid, blue coats, red vests, black silk knee breeches. The Führer received seven of the delegation. Their program in Germany was to include visits to the Limes Line, the Krupp works and the Zeppelin plant at Friedrichshafen, and a short...
...Hyderabad, India's largest native State, rates a 21-gun salute from British batteries and numbers among his many titles that of "Faithful Ally of the British Government." In World War I the Nizam demonstrated his faithfulness by giving four crores* of rupees ($15,000,000) to Great Britain's war fund, including a $400,000 grant for anti-submarine warfare. He also placed the services of the Hyderabad troops at the King-Emperor's disposal...
...Austria's late Chancellor Seipel was a Monsignor, France's late great Richelieu a Cardinal...