Word: kingdoms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...national defense expenditure of Japan was 307 million dollars, France 716 million, Italy 870 million, United Kingdom 846 million, U. S. 964 million, Germany 2,600 million, Soviet Union 2,963 million...
...London last week the Chancellor of the Exchequer, hawk-nosed, hawk-minded Neville Chamberlain, told the House of Commons that, although at least $5,000,000 is going to be spent every weekday for the next five years on rearming the United Kingdom, "it may be that in the end we shall find that even this has not represented the total amount this country has been compelled to spend...
...Ottawa last week, Canadian M.P.'s from the West demanded to know whether the Dominion Government has given or is about to give the United Kingdom "a blank check which might be filled in with the lives of young Canadians." This emotional question Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King quietly and flatly answered thus: "There are no commitments and no understandings in the nature of commitments between this Government and the Government of Great Britain or any other Government...
...Ribbentrop received the significant British honor of being invited to a house party at Knowsley Hall by the Earl of Derby, great & good friend of King George V & Queen Mary, not hitherto rated pro-German and in British Government circles one of the most influential aristocrats in the Kingdom. Derby took the course of advising British editors that his entertaining of von Ribbentrop was a "purely private affair" and that "any talk will be confidential." He expected the Kingdom's newsorgans to unite in keeping his hush-hush house party hushed but there are too many British Jews...
Though Italy has been a united kingdom for less than 70 years, the reigning House of Savoy has worn the ruling purple in Europe for ten centuries. For years Italians have been praying to the Mother of Christ that Princess Marie-José might have a male child. Only six days before she gave birth the Princess watched a performance at the San Carlo Opera House, applauded heartily. Her latest patriotic exploit was to leave her husband at Naples and go to Ethiopia whence she returned more popular than ever (TIME, March 30). Though Princess Marie...