Word: likings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most grinding poverty, the strongest loves were forgotten last week. Poles are phlegmatic. Poland's suicide rate, the lowest in Europe, is nine per 100,000 compared with 13 in Britain, 29 in Germany. As last week wore on, as the nerves of the rest of the world unraveled like rope-ends, only one complaint was to be heard in Poland: What are they waiting for? Isn't it clear that compromise is out of the question? Why do they not begin? Soon enough of the questions were answered...
...ever to make thrones totter. An orphan at nine, he grew up to love painting, history, philosophy, went to Cracow to study them. On the side he acted beautifully in amateur theatricals. He distinguished himself as an athlete, but was no bonecrusher; fenced gracefully, played keen tennis, rode like an Arab, and was the only one at the University who could swim Jagellonia Lake. It was in Cracow that he first met Josef Pilsudski, who was organizing rifle clubs throughout Austrian Poland, on the theory that one day his Riflemen's Alliance would form the nucleus of an army...
...Pope's ministrations, like those of all strivers for peace, had failed. But in one State they were a factor in the final decision. The Vatican newspaper printed last week an unprecedented report. Cardinal Maglione had a long, formal talk with an official not accredited to the Church- the private chaplain of Vittorio Emmanuele III, King and Emperor of Italy. Italy stayed...
Elliott Roosevelt, like his father (see p. 13), had his say over the radio: "We haven't been neutral in spirit, because it is impossible for decent human beings to remain neutral in the face of scientific barbarity, but as a unit, as a nation, we will have to make up our minds as to just what our course of action will be as regards this awful destruction...
Last week, as the first bombs bit into Warsaw pavements, Polish doctors had made no plans for the epidemic of war. Air raid casualties were picked up like victims of everyday auto accidents, packed into ambulances, rushed to overcrowded hospitals. Frantic radio appeals were broadcast for blood donors, volunteer ambulance drivers, nurses and stretcher bearers...