Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reach the rescue scene was the Southern Cross. Bitterly criticized Tycoon Wenner-Gren became an international hero as he picked up 200 survivors, started back with them toward Ireland. The Norwegian freighter Knute Nelson picked up 800 more. British warboats raced toward the spot where the Athenia was left to sink. World headlines screamed, GERMANS TORPEDO BRITISH LINER...
...said, "We have no quarrel with the German people except that they allowed themselves to be ruled by a Nazi Government" (see "White Papers" p. 38). But Prime Minister Chamberlain did not say what the House had nerved itself to hear, that Britain had declared war. Before Mr. Chamberlain left he spoke to Winston Churchill, usually his critic, always his rival, occasionally his enemy. Said Mr. Chamberlain to Mr. Churchill: "I would be most grateful if you'll help...
...Monastery of the Mountain of Light in Czestochowa, early last week, the arm of the priest who stands to the left of the doorway, dips his little broom in a can of holy water, and dexterously swishes precious spray over the pilgrims, bestowing virtue on the devout but not wasting a drop, grew tired. Thousands of grim, black-clad peasants who had been living on potatoes and pickles, hundreds of gayly costumed villagers, a few colonels in uniform, and counts in Bond Street tweeds, were flocking to Poland's holiest shrine to pray to Regina Regni Poloniae, the "Black Madonna...
...sent her great strategist many places before: to Poland in 1920, where he and 600 French officers found the Bolsheviks at the gates of Warsaw and left them four months later running over the borders for home*; to the Ruhr to try to squeeze reparations out of the Germans; to Syria to quell the Druses and give ancient Damascus its first organized street-sweeping service. From 1931 to 1935 he commanded the armies of France, for he was one cavalryman with brains, the "spiritual son" of the great Foch...
...typical atrocity stories, mainly from the German radio. Samples: "Today a highly pregnant German woman . . . was kicked in the abdomen by Polish beasts until she died at the wayside"; "a four-year-old boy was torn away from his mother . . . his hand was cut off and he was left to die in the ditch." Another atrocity charged to Poland was the murder of a girl in New Jersey, in connection with which her Polish father, a clergyman, is under arrest...