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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Italy's position astride the European fence was growing increasingly uncomfortable last week. The story came out that Benito Mussolini, still under pressure from Great Britain and France to come down off the fence and fight in one lot or the other, was making overtures to Britain by sending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Uncomfortable | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Uncomfortable | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Turkish Angle. The big diplomatic finesse which the Soviet Dictator was quietly developing in Moscow last week concerned the question of the Dardanelles. If the Turks should permit a British and French fleet to slip into the Black Sea through this narrow waterway, the Allies could then firmly bolster up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Moscow's Week | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

To see what the Allies have to say a Turkish mission headed by General Kiazim Orbay left for London, reputedly to demand that if Britain and France want Turkey to stand with them they must furnish her at once with large supplies of tanks, planes and artillery and must agree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Moscow's Week | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

(The Yale-in-China campus has so far escaped bombs and fires.) But Changsha would serve as a stepping stone to China's southwesternmost provinces, which are the last open doors to the Western World. If and when the Japanese control those provinces, they will have practically all there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Chinese Corridor | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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