Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that liberty may be given our people to go their way in the future under the sign of the Cross of Christ, in order that our grandsons may not curse their elders on the ground that their elders left them a state on earth that closed to them the Kingdom...
...scant 14 years ago, the Kingdom of Italy was as confused, irresolute and radical-ridden as are France and Spain today. The years have dignified and tempered Benito Mussolini, and he has dignified and tempered the Italian people. As empires crumble other empires rise, and buoyant empire-builders invariably have clear consciences. Italians are not ashamed but proud and happy about Ethiopia. A significant sign of this is the sort of picture post cards they send each other. Today no cards in Italy are selling quite so fast as the joyous new series called "For you, Little Blackface!" These buoyant...
...Lords: ¶ Queried the Lord Chancellor, Viscount Hailsham, onetime War Minister, as to whether the United Kingdom has sufficient food stores to hold out in case an enemy cut off Great Britain's supplies. "We calculate our three months' supply ought to be enough for us in any temporary squeeze,'' replied His Lordship, "but no method of food storage is going to save us as long as we do not keep our control...
Concluded Haile Selassie, whose name means Power of Trinity: "Apart from the Kingdom of the Lord, there is not on this earth any nation superior to any other. . . . Are the States going to set up the terrible precedent of bowing before force? ... It is international morality which is at stake! . . . Representatives of the world, I have come to Geneva to discharge in your midst the most painful of duties for the head of a State. What reply have I to take back to my people?" "Almost Ridiculous." In reply to His Majesty, thousands and tens of thousands of weasel words...
...April Fool's Day this year, the British Minister to the Kingdom of the Hellenes, dignified Sir Sydney Waterlow, whose rich relatives make stationery for King Edward VIII and British Government departments, was announced to have called upon Greek War Minister General John Metaxas and sternly inquired how things were getting on-particularly the rival British and German bids to build for Greece four destroyers. Last week General Metaxas, who has since become Premier of Greece, threw $13,500,000 of armament orders to Germany...