Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russians were quick to point out that this arrangement still left the way wide open for the British and French to attend another Munich parley (for which they have no taste). In an officially inspired editorial in Izvestia, Moscow daily newsorgan, the U. S. S. R. demanded iron-clad alliances in which nothing would be left to discussion and in which Britain, France and Russia would automatically guarantee each others' borders and those of other smaller States. Said Izvestia: "Where there is no reciprocity real collaboration cannot be brought about." Badgered by the French, the British Labor Party...
From the most reactionary Deputy on the Right to the most radical on the Left came loud, sustained applause. Said Socialist Leader Blum: "We approve entirely." The Right reciprocated by cheering a Communist Deputy who seconded the Premier's stand. On the question of defense, at any rate, France was politically united...
...turns. Priests and nuns rehearsed 25,000 school children for a pageant of greeting to Their Majesties on the Plains of Abraham. Kiwanians, Rotarians, Knights of Columbus got final instructions in how to cheer. (Raise hat, give three lusty cheers. Then hold hat in the right hand over the left breast as Their Majesties pass by.) Cameraddicts were warned that they might: 1) take no flashlight pictures; 2) make no attempts to influence Their Majesties to watch the birdie. St. Maurice Valley Sportsman Jean Crete and a corps of assistants angled for 450 speckled trout for the Quebec specialty Truite...
...deal which Herr Hitler had tried to make some weeks ago with the Poles. The Führer, it was said, had promised Poland a cut in a Nazi dismemberment of the Soviet Union. Although no written agreement resulted from the Potemkin visit, Polish-Russian affairs were left friendlier than they had been in many a year. With the breakdown of a Polish-German commercial agreement expected, Polish-Soviet trade will probably grow. While Poles were still suspicious of aid from Red Russia, a few German bombs falling on Warsaw could reasonably be expected to make them change their minds...
...Danzig in violation of the Constitution were the suppression by local Nazis of opposition parties and the imprisonment of Socialist, Catholic and Jewish (though not Polish) enemies. In fact, things got so "low" last January that Dr. Burckhardt, who was placed in virtual quarantine by the ruling Nazis, suddenly left, returned for only several days in March and then got the League's permission to leave more or less permanently. The League Committee of Three has not got around to considering Danzig's case now for two and a half years and it is not likely...