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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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But the most likely explanation was that in the bluff and counter-bluff of present European diplomacy, Dictator Stalin was simply clearing the decks to be ready at a moment's notice to jump either way. Foreign Commissar Molotov, inexperienced in diplomacy, represents no fixed foreign policy. Chief claim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Maxim's Exit | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

The year of his greatest triumphs was 1933, when he walked away from the otherwise still-born World Economic Conference in London with the embryo of U. S. recognition of the U.S.S.R. The same year he embarked on a series of non-aggression pacts with every Soviet neighbor except Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Maxim's Exit | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

Leaf. If any Moscow foreign correspondent last week knew the whereabouts of Comrade Litvinoff, he did not report it, even though the Soviet Union had suddenly abolished the long practice of censoring newsmen's outgoing despatches. When Adolf Hitler wants to say something really important he convenes his Reichstag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Maxim's Exit | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

Forty thousand people crowded Cammell Laird & Co., Ltd.'s historic shipyard at Birkenhead. Princess Mary, the Princess Royal, only sister of the Duke of Windsor, said, "I name this ship Prince of Wales. May God guide her and guard and keep all who sail in her." Robert Johnson, head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Splash Answer | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

After two magic minutes, for which 80.000 racing fans jampacked Churchill Downs last week, everyone, from the 50? standing-room to the $99 boxes, agreed with Owner Woodward that Johnstown was a great horse. Taking the lead away from speedy little El Chico (winter-book favorite) at the first quarter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big John | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

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