Word: kingdoms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...found only two that were sound-the importance of shipping to foreign trade and to National defense. Today the U. S. is the world's greatest exporting nation, about 10% of the country's movable production going overseas. In imports it ranks second only to the United Kingdom. Without its own ships the U. S. might be left stranded, as it was during the War, when foreign bottoms virtually disappeared from trade routes outside the War Zone...
...snug, prosperous, heavily industrial Kingdom of the Belgians and its rich jungle Congo empire, even the worst Cabinet crisis is almost never cause for alarm. Reason: the extraordinary prestige and stabilizing ability of the Throne. Its power is a legacy from that masterly European schemer Leopold II, who died in 1909, and from his heroic successor, Belgium's Wartime King Albert. Fortunately, the throne next came to young King Leopold III, today easily the outstanding European crowned head in strength of mind and leadership. Last week His Majesty, having presided for some days over the vain efforts of Belgian...
...Belgium, the rival Catholic and the Socialist parties and their satellites had jockeyed each other for power to such a comparative standstill that in 1935 it actually became possible for the kingdom to have in Paul van Zeeland a Premier who had never actively belonged to any party, never had stood for election to any office and was primarily a professor of economics and an expert in central banking (TIME, April 8, 1935). Professor van Zeeland was brought in as a compromise coalition Premier chiefly because King Albert had repeatedly brought him in as an economic counselor whose services previous...
...Downing Street by gout, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain one day last week had Italian Ambassador Count Dino Grandi in for a cozy, significant lunch. Afterward, Whitehall buzzed with rumors that His Majesty's Government were about to permit Generalissimo Francisco Franco to open throughout the United Kingdom consulates flying the crimson & gold flag of Rightist Spain. Same day Soviet Russia hastily abandoned the obstructionist tactics by which she has kept the London Committee for Spanish Non-intervention from taking steps to carry out the famed British "Scheme...
...says Author Ford, had been listened to, the voyage would have ended very differently. Suspicious of Magellan's behavior,, del Cano and Gonzalo discovered before long that Magellan's real aim was to sail secretly over the Portuguese route to the East Indies, seize a rich island kingdom, set up in the king business for himself...