Word: lied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only Czechoslovakia, the most powerful satellite of France, remained as a possible source of armed assistance to the Austrian Government. But, perhaps because Czechoslovaks fear they may be next on Vegetarian Adolf Hitler's menu, the attitude of Prague "in the circumstances" last week was to lie low. "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman," famed Czechoslovak President Eduard Benes, could think of nothing better than to observe: "In spite of the great importance of material strength . . . the most important forces are spiritual." After all. one bold remark by Benes might cause Hitler to speed German troops toward Prague...
...Czechoslovakia, Europe's "danger spot," Professor Langer said, "We can hope that Hitler will rest on his laurels." One possible solution might lie in drastic revision of the war-born state's constitution, he said, since Slovaks as well as Germans have been clamoring for autonomy...
...Bukharin and Rykov lie. We did not want to do it, but we yielded to Trotsky's insistence...
Governments do not make it easy to arrive at such figures, and some of them deliberately lie, but experts of the League of Nations think their researches, costing thousands of dollars yearly, have produced figures worthy of some credence, except in the case of Germany where no figures have been released. Using the League's figures for the other Great Powers, and taking for the Reich 1936 estimates which the British Statesman's Year-Book presents, the latest statistics show total expenditures in 1937 by each of the Great Powers such that per capita...
...eyes are turned on 175-pounder Captain Johnnie Harkness who has crushed the present titleholder, Ross Shaffer, and maintained an undefeated record in his matches this year. All his chances hinge on whether lie can pin the Penn State wonder once again...