Word: likelihood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offered their "good offices" in mediating Europe's crisis. Five days later the offer was repeated. Since these appeals, then politely rejected, presumably still stood open, observers wondered why the two practical sovereigns found it necessary to renew their peace effort at a time when there was less likelihood than ever before that the belligerents would lay down their arms. Moreover, this new appeal contained no formula for calling off hostilities...
...Hertogenbosch, Tilburg and Eindhoven, is where the first German assault could be expected. Gaining this foothold, the Germans could then press on to take Flushing and other coastal points south of the river deltas, enjoying the Dutch flood zone as protection for their right flank from any counterattack. The likelihood of this attack, and its obvious menace to Belgium, was believed last week to have led King Leopold to tell Queen Wilhelmina that if the Germans invaded her land, his troops would have to occupy her southeastern corner to meet them. Also, it was understood, he would invite the British...
Problem. Hardheaded diplomats deplored the rocketing headlines over the case of City of Flint. U. S. diplomatic history is crammed with such cases; the U. S. has an impressive record of skill in litigation over them. The likelihood that the future will see more important issues made it desirable that this one should be kept in perspective. Quickly Government spokesmen made cold and quiet statements: although the U. S. position was that City of Flint's, voyage was legal, Germany acted according to international law in seizing the ship, putting a prize crew aboard, declaring the cargo contraband. True...
...proposals from Chungking, in stories of the suppression of the French Communist Party, no less than in the mysterious report that Adolf Hitler might put an abrupt and disconcerting end to the Stop Hitler movement by abdicating. But the scorn burned warmest in the stories that dealt with the likelihood that those great pacifists, Joseph Stalin, Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, had united in the drive for Peace...
Last week there was little likelihood of Sir Kenneth Clark making a visit to Milan to authenticate a new da Vinci. Sir Kenneth moved his handsome Scottish wife and three children to the country, closed their beautiful house at 30 Portland Place, took rooms in Gray's Inn. As Surveyor of the King's Pictures, Sir Kenneth has the duty of guarding the royal collections at Buckingham Palace, Windsor and Hampton Court. It was a busy week...