Word: longingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Step by step, like a long-harried elephant finally facing an enemy, Britain last week turned in her tracks. It was an impressive and world-shaking spectacle. Hard as it is for Britain to change, in one short week she turned her back on a longestablished policy of no military commitments in Europe east of the Rhine-turned, whole-elephant, and guaranteed that the British Fleet, along with the French Army (and the combined Air Forces of the two nations) would fight to protect the States of Eastern Europe from further Nazi aggression...
...include Poland, Soviet Russia, Rumania, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Greece) a tight system of military agreements to resist further Nazi aggression. In the meantime, moreover, the British Government was prepared to consider the Vistula, the river that flows through the Polish Corridor, just as much its frontier as it has long considered the Rhine. He added...
...loopholes in the British pledge, Septuagenarian Chamberlain this week rose again to speak in the House. In the diplomatic gallery U. S. Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, Soviet Ambassador Ivan M. Maisky, French Ambassador André Corbin listened. On the floor the group of M. P.'s who had long scoffed at the Prime Minister's efforts to get along with Herr Hitler hung on his words...
...words opened the way for Poland, Rumania, Turkey, the Soviet Union, Greece, Yugoslavia-all to join Britain and France in a pledge to aid one another in case of attack. The British Government had flatly dropped all pretenses of continental neutrality. It was an event that went a long way toward restoring the balance of power that had lately swung heavily in favor of the dictators. If Chamberlain's words meant anything, they meant that from now on Führer Hitler will have few if any more bloodless conquests...
...world may now find the answers to two questions long debated: 1) Can Führer Hitler and his Nazis remain in power long without their foreign "diversion"? 2) When the Führer threatens invasion is he bluffing or prepared to wage war? Another question was virtually settled in the affirmative: If war does come, Germany will again have to fight both on eastern and western fronts...