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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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As M.P. for Epping he had no more power than an honorable member for Deptford, Huddersfield, Moss Side, Smethwick, Penryn, and Falmouth, Tavistock, Penrith and Cockermouth, Spennymoor, The Wrenkin, Tewkesbury (pronounced "tooksbroo") or the 615 constituencies of England, Scotland and Wales. But as Winston Churchill the Elder Statesman, scarred veteran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Vision, Vindication | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

In his maiden speech 38 years ago Winston Churchill stated his credo and praised the Boers he had been fighting: "It must be made clear to these brave and unhappy men (the Boers) that, whenever they are ready to recognize that their small independence must be merged with the larger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Vision, Vindication | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Visiting General Gamelin in France when news of the pact broke, Elder Statesman Churchill caught a plane for Croydon, dashed off a brilliant article for the London Daily Mirror, At the Eleventh Hour, on his way home. "Along all frontiers hundreds of thousands of men, armed with the most deadly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Vision, Vindication | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

This fight, if it came, Poles felt, would be a "holy war," a war for the ideal of liberty, "for your freedom and ours." They talked, as 600,000 reservists gathered to join the 1,500,000 already under arms, of the strategy that might be used, of a shuttle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Not Since Napoleon | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

If Germany-Italy were one country and if it should attack Poland-then any amateur war-gamer would know what Britain-France must do. Britain-France must destroy Italy. Thus they would deliver a shattering wound to Germany-Italy, become masters of the Mediterranean from end to end and able...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Poor and Reluctant | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

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