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Word: himly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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These apocalyptic questions boiled down to one-what would Italy get if she backed up her peace proposal with a threat to go in with Germany and Russia? That a peace proposal was imminent few doubted. That Britain and France would accept it few believed. Britons, believing that its main...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Peace? | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

"It was for Hitler to say when the war would begin, but it is not for him nor his successors to say when it will end. It began when he wanted it, and it will end only when we are convinced that he has had enough. . . .

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Peace? | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

At 111 a. m. Sept. 3, Great Britain's ultimatum to Germany expired. At 11:35 the first air-raid warning wailed over the British capital. Some 8,000,000 unhurried Londoners tramped down the steps of their air-raid shelters, among them George VI, King-Emperor, and his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: After Boadicea | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Commandant. Better and more broadly than perhaps ever before, Britain's Queen represents Britain's womanhood. Titular commandant of the women's fighting services, last week Elizabeth graciously accepted the presidency of WVS, putting her on top of the female nonfighting services. She was already a typical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: After Boadicea | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Soon the Yorks were touring British Africa in royal style (he shot a white rhinoceros, she refused to shoot another "because they are so rare"); Polish monarchists offered to start a movement to make him King of Poland (he declined with thanks); the Duke came down with influenza; and the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: After Boadicea | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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