Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hitherto only Austria had extended formal recognition. Hungary has given de facto recognition by extending to the Italian Empire the benefit of her trade treaties with the Italian Kingdom. Turkey has withdrawn her Legation from Addis Ababa, placing its affairs in the hands of the Italian Viceroy...
Skilled industrial engineers in the United Kingdom have a social status that requires them to go in by the "Tradesmen's Entrance." They are accustomed to be guided and overruled by English gentlemen and by civil servants. Last week, however, the "Ford of Britain." philanthropic Lord Nuffield, whose little Morris cars are omnipresent doodlebugs of the British road, marched out of the Air Ministry and stirred up the most public sort of scandal by announcing that the engineering plans of its gentlemen happen to be all wrong. Lord Nuffield made no secret of the fact that he had just...
...reason to believe that it is to be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of a foreign nation. ..." Amid uncertainty as to the application of this act the Vancouver branch of U. S. Boeing Airplane Co. was rumored likely to get United Kingdom orders which might be too "hot" to be executed...
Since the Treaty of Versailles was signed, the Kingdom of the Belgians has relied not on its ancient neutrality but upon the League of Nations, the Locarno Pact and more especially upon the British and the French for protection against an other onslaught. In recent months the British have not only winked at German violations of the Treaty of Versailles but have compounded with Adolf Hitler by signing an Anglo-German Treaty authorizing Berlin to build a potent Reich Navy (TIME, June 24, 1935). Neither the British nor the French replied with force - the only language the Nazis under stand...
...burning, thundered with apostolic zeal: "The English Government's behavior in the matter of the bombing school is exactly the behavior of the new Antichrist throughout Europe. . . . The establishment of the bombing field would make imminent the death of our Welsh nation. . . . It is my responsibility for the Kingdom of God in Wales that urged me to strike the blow for Wales. Our allegiance to the laws of Christianity is infinitely higher than our allegiance to the laws of England...