Word: kingdoms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just before leaving London for Brussels, willowy, young British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told the House of Commons that the United Kingdom will "go as far as the United States, in full agreement with them-not rushing ahead and not being left behind ... in this dangerous and difficult Far East situation...
...grey & graceful Norman Hezekiah Davis, was encouraged by all to make the first speech at the Conference. He did so. If the President and Mr. Davis had cared to take Mr. Eden at his solemn word, they could have proposed vigorous action to "quarantine world lawlessness," and the United Kingdom would have been bound to follow in giving the Conference a shove in that direction. Instead, the keynote struck by Ambassador Davis was: "We come to this Conference to study with our colleagues the problems which concern...
...Rearmament; speed air raid precautions; inaugurate penal law reforms; regulate the coal mining, electric power, milk and whitefish industries ; combat stock frauds; add judges to unjam the divorce courts; publicize the health services; expand housing; regulate the working conditions of truck drivers and raise the efficiency of the United Kingdom's fire brigades...
...capita consumption: U. S. 25 Ib.; The Netherlands 24 Ib.; United Kingdom 20 Ib.; Japan 7 Ib.; Brazil 6.8 Ib.; world average 6.6 Ib.; Russia 5.7 Ib. (compared to less than 2 Ib. 20 years ago); British India, 4 oz.; China...
Before dawn next morning strange Christian soldiers wearing skirts, newly arrived from the United Kingdom, speaking with a thick burr and known as the Black Watch, surrounded Daharieh, ostentatiously showing their weapons. Emboldened by the Black Watch's presence, the disarmed Christian police demanded that the Moslem villagers restore their arms, roughly ordered Moslem women to aid them in searching cellars. Having found no weapons, the Christians set charges of dynamite under the houses of three prominent Arab residents who remained helpless while their homes and goods were blown to smithereens. Finally the Christians, after sending their patrol...