Word: keys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Venizelos had planned merely a show of force and a quick coup d'état. Instinctively he seized first the key war boats in Greece's Navy. But the thing turned into a civil war on land (TIME, March 18). Seventy thousand loyalists and some airplanes crumpled the rebel army of 30,000 planeless Greeks from the islands, from Macedonia and Thrace. Venizelos had no stomach for civil war. For all the shooting, the revolt ended with only 100 dead on both sides. The Government, however, promised to execute three times as many. Last week Venizelos, his second...
Once last summer when businessmen were jittery over Government finances, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau declared that the Government's $2,800,000,000 gold "profit" realized on dollar devaluation was "under lock & key." And to end all fear of the sudden emission of $2,800,000,000 of new money, President Roosevelt called the gold profit a "nest egg to be disposed of only in the indefinite future...
...come out squarely on the subject of her relations with France, to state in as many words that if France were attacked, and Belgian neutrality violated, England would join forces against the aggressor. Today, if the Russians are right, an identical situation has arisen, and again Britain holds the key to European peace. A positive statement of her policy would almost surely postpone another large-scale War until a new system of alliances has formed. There will be strife in the near future only if France persuades her allies to cooperate in a preventive war, in the hope of sparing...
...call the India Bill "dead." Perturbed. His Majesty's Government cabled the Speaker of India's Council of Princes, the pearl-bedecked Maharaja of Patiala, a pressing invitation to speed to London. Though Patiala is neither the biggest nor the richest of Indian States, it is the key State of the Sikh tribes of the Northern Punjabi plains which furnished nearly half of Britain's Indian troops in the War, and the Maharajas of Patiala have been strongly pro-British for 100 years. The present Maharaja is thus one of the most politically potent Princes in India...
Pointing to Germany with pride as the land where "Judaism no longer possesses its former weapons-the radio, the theatre and the press," Governor Mutschmann broadened his theme, pulled out all the emotional stops: "It must constantly be pointed out that the Jewish question is the key to world history and we must not show any yielding in that question. No day must pass on which this World Pest is not characterized as such...