Word: made
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pius also made Nazis squirm on the subject of Poland: "The blood of countless human beings, even noncombatants, raises a piteous dirge over a nation such as our dear Poland, which, for its fidelity to the church, for its services in the defense of Christian civilization, written in indelible characters in the annals of history, has a right to the generous and brotherly sympathy of the whole world, while it awaits . . . the hour of a resurrection in harmony with the principles of justice and true peace...
...alarm which sent the gathered people scurrying to shelter was because of a Royal Air Force reconnaissance flight-no bombs dropped. The speech which had gathered the crowds was the first important official statement since Adolf Hitler's "final peace offer" on Oct. 6. It was made before the Nazi Party Veterans' League in Danzig by Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. After recapitulating the diplomatic bickerings over Poland, Herr Ribbentrop boarded a verbal airplane and made a grand tour...
Extenuating Circumstances. Harking back to Lord Curzon, British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax, in a House of Lords debate, practically made an official declaration that Russia is welcome to that part of Poland now under the hammer-&-sickle...
...greatest living British philanthropist and one of the Empire's greatest armorers is William Richard Morris, Viscount Nuffield. Not quite bold enough to attack Lord Nuffield directly as a profiteer, Laborite Stokes made allegations in the House of Commons about two firms, which he called "A" and "B," bidders as subcontractors to Nuffield Mechanisations & Aero...
...Firm A" offered to supply mountings for Bofors anti-aircraft guns (a Nuffield specialty made under leased Swedish patents) for ?220 each ($880), according to Mr. Stokes, while the bid of "Firm B" on the same mountings...