Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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By this time the U. S. had become infected with inconsistency. First reports said that during their talk Ambassador Grew had threatened economic pressure if Japan did not change her policy in China. Second (official) reports said he had not made any threat.
Early in 1914 two royal matchmakers-Nicholas II, last Tsar of All the Russias, and Marie, then Rumania's British-born Crown Princess-put their heads together and decided it would be nice for both their countries if Marie's elder son Carol and Nicholas' eldest daughter...
Meanwhile, Bucharest is having such a face-lifting that the city's Polish refugees, fresh from Warsaw, wondered if Nazi bombers had not paid it a visit. The Calea Victoriei is half boarded up as the street's smaller twists are being straightened out. A wide boulevard is...
Italy was leading one group of confederation conferees, Turkey the other; there was speculation that Italy and Turkey might even get together and lead the nations in the same direction of security and neutrality. And from Paris perceptive Foreign Editor Jules Sauerwein of Paris-Soir warned: "It is toward these...
Mrs. Steeves's words were greeted with howls of "Shame! Shame!" Up rose B. C.'s Premier Thomas D. Pattullo to chide her-and incidentally to prove that antitotalitarian nations must adopt semi-totalitarian methods to achieve their ends: "I am sorry at the honorable lady member'...