Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be no more cruel than Germany chose to make it, said Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax to the House of Lords. As to the war's futility, it was Anthony Eden, Secretary of State for the Dominions, the young hopeful, who went to bat. His was the hardest job of all. Why fight? Why kill off millions for another Versailles, another poor peace, yet another war? Anthony Eden took to the radio and said to the world: "The Nazi System and all that it has implied (naked aggression . . . cynical dissimulation . . . flagrant mockery . . . lawlessness . . . bloodshed . . . ) must go." The Nazis purged...
...most of Great Britain, since war broke out, no news has been bad news. For months the country had been preparing itself for a sudden, overwhelming, spectacular shock. And when war came, nothing seemed to happen: darkness, silence, expectancy, laconic communiques. "What kind of war is this?" asked impatient Lord Beaverbrook in his Evening Standard. Was anything ever going to happen? Were Britain and France in it up to their necks, or had they just put a toe in to see how cold it was? Were they stalling until Poland was beaten to accept the expected German peace offer...
...great shock of Russia's invasion of Poland did not shake Britain out of her aim. Although Lord Beaverbrook shrieked "Murder!" in the Evening Standard, the official communique made it clear that Britain would not declare war on Russia. Said a Government declaration: "This attack [the Russian invasion of Poland] made upon their ally, at a moment when she is prostrated in the face of overwhelming forces brought against her by Germany, cannot ... be justified by the argument put forward by the Soviet Government. The full implication of these events is not yet apparent. ..." A Government spokesman made...
...Lord of the Lightning, which in less than three weeks had struck down a nation of 34,000,000 people, defended by an Army of 2,000,000, was a middleaged, middle-sized, good-looking soldier who was fighting his first war. As befitted the director of such forces as he commanded, he had no permanent headquarters, but was first in one place, then in another. He had supervised the advance of the East Prussian divisions which, in the first days of the war, drove straight for Warsaw, only to be held up momentarily at Pultusk and Plonsk. These obstacles...
...munitions to Great Britain and Russia. Drafted by Wilson as director of the Emergency Fleet Corp. in 1917, in two years Schwab put a U. S. Merchant Marine on the seas. After the war he went back to making and spending millions: he hobnobbed with Sir Basil Zaharoff, Lord Rothermere and the King of Sweden at Monte Carlo, built an $8,000,000 chateau on Riverside Drive, bought a 1,000-acre estate at Loretto, Pa., his birthplace. In the depth of Depression he never lost his faith in big business. Said he: "I am an optimist by nature. Something...