Word: longingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rumania also mobilized last week, but rather halfheartedly. The country has long depended on alliances rather than military power for defense. (She was a member of the now defunct Little Entente, is at present a member of the Balkan Entente.) For a day or two it seemed to the outside world that Britain and France might rescue her from German pressure. But in the end Rumania signed on the dotted line. With that signature Adolf Hitler made his biggest killing to date. This week Rumanian Premier Armand Calinescu pathetically denied that his country had lost any of her independence...
Inflationary and promissory plans like this have long distracted German financial experts (except Hjalmar Schacht, who controlled currency with a firm hand). Latest to crack under the strain is Reichsbank Vice President Dr. Rudolf Brinkmann, who lasted less than four weeks in office. One day just before he was sent to a sanatorium for a rest, Herr Brinkmann was feeling on top of the world. Carefully going through the personnel of the Reichsbank and picking out many of the most talented men, he called them together. He also summoned a brass band. "Play a march," he said to the band...
Dictator Benito Mussolini has long fancied himself a student of government. Convinced that parliamentary democracy is an anachronism, Il Duce has pondered the ideal political setup for the economic state of today. Possessed of a keen sense of history and conscious of posterity's verdict, Signor Mussolini has many times predicted that the system of government he was inaugurating in Italy would revolutionize political science and in time be a model for future political organizations. In matters of government, the Italian Dictator is much more of a thinker than his intuitive and more successful colleague, Adolf Hitler. What...
Early in the week a Frenchman named Hubert Lagardelle, who lives in Rome and hobnobs with Signor Mussolini, went to Paris supposedly charged with a secret mission. Before long everyone knew the secret. He called on a Daladier lieutenant, Public Works Minister Anatole de Monzie, and suggested that he tell his boss the time was ripe for Paris to woo Rome. Next day King Vittorio Emmanuele read his mild-as-milk speech before the Chamber of Fasces and Corporations. Day after that France's Ambassador in Rome, Andre François-Poncet, called on Crown Prince Humbert...
...decent bet, too, but not over popular, was Merseyside-Irishman Sir Alexander Maguire's Workman, last year's tired third. Workman stood at 100-8, just a shade better liked than Royal Mail, 100-7, the only former winner in the field. A tempting long shot was Capt. L. E. Scott Briggs's MacMoffat, at 25-1. Another was Sir Humphrey de Trafford's Under...