Word: made
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gulf of Lepanto the 300 Christian ships commanded by Don John of Austria struck the Turkish fleet in 1571, enfolded it and then pierced it, destroyed it except for 40 vessels that made a desperate heroic escape...
...soldier of war and of the way to fight it. High-minded Chamberlain and grave Halifax, two Shakespearean characters in a tragic drama, spoke of right, of justice, of the moral problems of the conflict (see p. 27). Benito Mussolini, as befitted a student of Machiavelli, said little and made that little mean much or nothing (see p. 21). Harsh Molotov in Moscow jeered at hopeful democrats and alone of the world's spokesmen said nothing of war's misery-of which Adolf Hitler no less than Lenin showed himself fully conscious (TIME, Sept...
...Europe's war so long as it was a word-war. U. S. citizens looked upon it with impatience, with disgusted weariness, a few with alarm. Or they saw it as an obsessed absorption with insoluble problems, pushed the whole conflict out of their minds. Or they made no distinction between the antagonists, thought of them struggling for the same ends by different- and generally deceptive-means. Or they went South American or Russian (see p. 35), viewed with frank satisfaction making money from the war. Or they decided that the whole turmoil baffled understanding, that its reports held...
...made proposal after proposal. . . . I made an offer to them some time ago which was the most loyal and most generous imaginable. Only I, myself, could have made such an offer, although I knew millions of Germans disagreed with me. . . . Over a period of four months I have been looking on. . . . I proposed a solution on the basis of direct negotiations. For two long days I have been waiting. . . . My love of peace and my endless patience should not be mistaken for weakness. . . . I am now determined to talk the same language to Poland that Poland has been talking...
...Wilhelm Frick did not serve in the last War. As chief of the Munich Political Police he took a hand in the 1923 Putsch, earned a 16-month prison sentence for his trouble. In 1930, as Minister of the Interior of Thuringia, he appointed Hitler a police officer, thereby made him a German citizen...