Word: himly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next year the Duke was assigned to go to Australia and open its new Parliament with a Speech from the Throne, for him a terrible ordeal. "Well, here goes," York was heard to say to his wife as, gritting his teeth, he arose to speak. "I know you can do...
Last week it was not April, but Britain was no longer at peace, when Sir John Simon rose to open a new, extraordinary budget. Before him was the worn red leather dispatch box that had been used by Gladstone. Three famed predecessors of Sir John's sat in the...
But II Duce still had one good card in his hand. If he could persuade Adolf Hitler to give up a sizable chunk of Poland for a buffer state, and present this offer to Britain and France as Germany's concession for peace, he still had a chance-though...
"Higher and Higher!" It was no fun for A. Hitler to watch the "Berchtesgaden technique" of bluff & bludgeon being successfully used on Estonia last week by Russia. Germans have always hoped to dominate the Baltic. As long as 20 years ago German General Staff officers had perfected a fine set...
On all this Nazi Ribbentrop clicked with his Soviet hosts. Working long after midnight in the Kremlin two nights running, Premier Molotov and the German Foreign Minister, with J. Stalin sitting in, again redrew the map of Poland (see map). They moved last fortnight's provisional "Military Division" far...