Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This last was too much for chunky little Ambassador Dieckhoff, who trotted to the State Department to protest to Secretary Hull. He pointed out that Germany has done all it can do by forbidding its own nationals to join the Bund. "Un-officially," Embassy Counselor Dr. Hans Thomsen called Witness Metcalfe untrustworthy. Counselor Thomsen asked why the Dies committee did not call Führer Kuhn to testify...
...plebiscites," which are to be held by November 30. The Commission of Five is empowered to recommend "minor modifications in strictly ethnographical determination of the zones which are to be transferred without plebiscite." An annex to the pact of the Big Four decreed that Britain and France immediately join in "an international guarantee of the new boundaries of the Czechoslovak State against unprovoked aggression." This was an historic reversal of British policy, for up to now Britain has not been directly pledged to anything on the Continent, except via her League obligations. This pledge binds her in black and white...
Copies of the Alumni Bulletin and University Gazette arrive at the House weekly, and on the promise of this correspondent, the CRIMSON will join them shortly on the huge oak table in the center of the heavy-beamed front door...
...Chamberlain was urging that any European settlement reached with Herr Hitler be "crowned" by having Germany resume membership in a League of Nations now somewhat "revised." Such revision the Scandinavian states launched by announcing that they no longer regarded League members as bound "automatically" to join in applying sanctions to an aggressor. Last week the British delegate, Mr. Richard Austen Butler, served formal notice that His Majesty's Government back this new interpretation, while maintaining that "The Covenant's text and structure shall remain unaltered...
...Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff in efforts to get him to say that, even if France did NOT aid Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union would do so anyhow. In a very long speech Commissar Litvinoff went no further than to divulge that the Red Army Staff had recently been anxious to join the French & British Army Staffs in conversations about how joint action could be taken against Germany. Although repeatedly complaining that the Red Army had not been invited to sit in, the Soviet Commissar answered at no time during the week the crucial question of whether Czechoslovakia, if attacked by Germany...