Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In Brussels, five days later, the 1940 Olympic Games were considered as good as canceled when Count Henri de Baillet-Latour, president of the International Olympic Committee, announced that if the Games cannot be held in Finland, as scheduled, they will not be held at all. Originally the 1940 Olympics...
> The mood of idealistic British Laborites has been one of political funk ever since their beloved League of Nations collapsed, the Nazi menace reared its head, and they could think of nothing more popular to do than support the Conservative Government's program of swiftly rearming Britain. Last week...
> Prosperous Britons were pelting the Treasury last week with a patriotic shower of valuables to help win the war. Voluntarily they sent silver heirlooms, wedding and engagement rings, gold coins and even historic strings of family pearls. This mood of sacrifice was die-hard Britain at her best, but Chancellor...
A woman dependent on a husband at the front receives 26? per day from the State if she lives in Paris, only 15? in the provinces. In Paris the allowance per dependent child is 12&3162;, elsewhere 10?, and a soldier at the front gets 22? daily pocket money.
A larger organization of this kind is Defense Passive, a corps of women who, if there ever are any air raids, will drive ambulances and help drag the wounded out of smashed buildings. Some Defense Passives have already bought long, brown, gas-proof capes with yellow scarves, but most are...