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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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>The whole British Labor Party sent this message to the whole German people, whose censors throttled it: "War is very near. You must clearly understand that if war comes Britain and France both stand firmly by their pledges to Poland. "Your Government does not tell you the truth. British labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: War Is Very Near | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

>Parliament sat. The Government asked for war powers-powers for the King to issue decree laws, for the Government to confiscate property, order arrests, search premises, control railways, conduct secret trials, impose financial regulations. Debate began. At 5:30 p. m. Prime Minister Chamberlain, his old-man's voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: War Is Very Near | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Australia answered through Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies, "If Britain is forced to war, she will not go alone. Australia stands where she stood 25 years ago. . . ."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Empire | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

The Bahamas. To World War No. I, the Bahamas' chief contributions were fresh water and fruit to roving British warboats. Last week six British warboats lay at the Atlantic end of the Panama Canal waiting to prey on German shipping if the explosion came.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Empire | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

". . . In other words, the true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and therefore his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind. In the coming test, pacifists have to prove their faith by resolutely refusing to have anything to do with war...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Empire | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

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