Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Name deleted by request) London, England...
...Versailles Peace Conference. In the turmoil into which Eastern Europe was soon to be plunged, however, the Curzon line raveled. Poland invaded the Ukraine and occupied Kiev. After defeating their other foes the Bolsheviks finally counterattacked, pushed the Poles back almost to Warsaw. Polish emissaries at London screamed for help, but Prime Minister David Lloyd George, never before or since too fond of the Poles, reminded them that they were the original aggressors and turned a deaf ear. Finally the French agreed to help, the Russians were routed, and in the Treaty of Riga ending the conflict, Poland extended...
...Eric Phipps was educated at esthetic King's College, Cambridge. At 24 he passed the competitive examinations for the Diplomatic Corps, and was assigned in turn to posts in Paris, Constantinople, Rome, Paris again, Petrograd, Madrid, Paris again, London, Brussels, Paris again, and Vienna. In 1933, the year Hitler came to power, he was appointed Ambassador in Berlin. There he spent four incredibly difficult years, so distinguished himself in crisis after crisis that the Nazis, smarting under his smartness, were glad to hear of his transfer back to Paris (as Ambassador) in February 1937. And the French were delighted...
...London, Mussolini's action was regarded as eliminating pro-German elements in the high ranks of Fascism, because several of the 10 men removed today have been regarded as staunch supporters of close collaboration with Fuchrer Adolf Hitler...
...most English writers remained in England, where the vast armory of English literature was being mobilized along with the rest of the Empire. In the first week of the war the London Times recommended, for blackout nights, a reperusal of such "lenitive" 19th Century giants as Trollope and Dickens. Publishers adopted slogans like "Always carry your gas mask; always carry a book." The London Library resolved to stay open. Publisher Geoffrey Faber publicly suggested that writing a book was "the most valuable piece of national service which an author can render...