Word: helps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...troops are the Chinese Communist armies. If China wins the war, hinted Chiang last week, to Russia would naturally fall the trade position in China once held by Britain-unless Britain was soon able to match the U. S. S. R.'s friendly handouts. Britain could help China mightily with loans and shipments of munitions through British Burma, which would bulwark Chiang's southern campaign...
This week the No. 1 question in the world was what to do to help the Jews. Irish Catholic Joseph Patrick Kennedy, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, got credit for having activated Neville Chamberlain's negotiations in Paris which found a partial answer to the question. Nowhere were people more horrified at Adolf Hitler's pogrom than in Britain. A poll showed that more than seven Britons out of ten, while sympathetic to Chamberlain, considered the Nazi terror a bar to Chamberlain's "appeasing" relations with the Reich...
...Paris Prime Minister Chamberlain and Premier Daladier agreed to open their colonies at once to 10,000 German Jews apiece. In both London and Paris, banking houses were ready to lend to help the Jews get started there, in Ethiopia or elsewhere, and they wanted U. S. bankers to chip in. The U. S. Department of Labor was considering the possibility of hypothecating its German-Austrian immigration quota for the next three years to admit up to 81,000 refugees into the country. Secretary of the Interior Ickes suggested that as his Matanuska colony of dust-bowl refugees grew...
...Some of the Irish wanted to help some of the Jews. A committee of Catholics and Jews was formed in Dublin under Frank Fahy, Speaker of the Dail, to make a public appeal for funds to rescue and house 20 families of German and Austrian refugees...
...national organization of educational and business groups cooperating to help guide young people in getting jobs...