Word: likings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reynaud, like many another European politico, believes that international economic collaboration, especially between Britain and France, is the only possible basis for a lasting peace when World War II is over. But Finance Minister Reynaud had come to talk about fighting the war before liquidating it, and in his conversations with Sir John Simon he got what he wanted...
Survivors told of seeing fellow passengers blown along the decks like tenpins. The first blast's force lifted the whole ship out of water forward. Officers on the bridge were slain at their posts. The second explosion burst Bolivar's fuel tanks and the sea around her became filled with swimmers gasping and spluttering in black oil. One rescued baby was officially listed as a pickaninny, then scrubbed, and listed as white. One man saved his small daughter by pushing her ahead of him through the sludge on a packing case. While being rescued by tugs and trawlers...
Floating mines are not outlawed by international convention. But, like anchored mines after they break loose, their danger period is supposed to be limited to one hour. A small submarine can carry 20 mines, can plant them through specially constructed mine tubes while submerged if necessary. Larger craft have special devices for submarine egg-laying and can put down 40 or more charges per trip...
...taking shape, the Anglo-French peace pattern envisions that hereafter uneconomic duplication of production would cease, industrial specialization by nations would be encouraged, pertinent raw materials would be made available to all, and exploitation of new territories would be mainly carried out by economic organizations like the Suez Canal Co., in which investors of many States participate, instead of by smash-and-grab political tactics like the Italian war to bring "civilization" to Ethiopia...
...headed by Prussia made the practical Dutch finally realize that a nation of only a few million could no longer play big-time grabby politics in a world of giant neighbors. It was under Wilhelmina that The Netherlands became a "satisfied nation," settled down and hung up its sword like Switzerland and the Scandinavian States...