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Word: haves (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many Dutch villages have their St. Nicholases and Black Peters, generally two popular local characters who know all the children. By prearrangement with parents, they leave toys for good children or threaten to leave a birch switch for bad as they go from house to house. Especially naughty moppets are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Christmas | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Three, Four, Five. If the Count is to be believed, the German-Italian pact was signed on expectations that Italy would have three peaceful years and the Reich would have four or five. Meanwhile it was hoped that the Reich would get Danzig, and possibly the Polish Corridor, without provoking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Ciano on Crisis | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Game Spoiled. According to the Ciano version, what really spoiled this Axis game was the overture of Neville Chamberlain to Joseph Stalin and the consequent alarm of Adolf Hitler lest he have to face an Anglo-Franco-Russian lineup. The action of the democracies, said Count Ciano, so bolstered the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Ciano on Crisis | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Repudiating rumors that King Vittorio Emanuele and Crown Prince Umberto opposed the Axis policy which might have carried Italy into war, the Foreign Minister said that on the contrary His Majesty and His Royal Highness, foreseeing this possibility, had "asked the privilege and honor of serving the country in arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Ciano on Crisis | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

The Bishop of Chichester joined with Lords Darnley and Arnold in plumping for peace-without-victory, observing that the Government had not "taken seriously" the efforts of neutrals to mediate. Outstanding in the stuffy Church of England as a progressive student of social and industrial problems, the Bishop sharply criticized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Fight to the Finish? | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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