Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King's Speech the Government of the day may state their program, but they need not state it in detail, and Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin saw no reason to divulge anything to the Empire last week. It was already known that the main business of His Majesty's Government, following their victory in the general election, is to push British Rearmament, and this the King's Speech announced as "urgently necessary...
...main air base of central France, near Lyon, plans for sky mobilization in case of war are kept in the colonel's safe. Last week Sergeant Keiffer of the night patrol drove off four strangers with gun fire, rushed into the colonel's office, found the safe drilled almost open and on the floor a kit of brand-new burglar tools...
Coolly Prime Minister Baldwin replied: "I am going to lose no chance for this country to get peace instead of war." ¶ Heard without enthusiasm the main Government speech of the week from Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare who was just about to leave England to "get peace" in France (see p. 20). Since it is from Benito Mussolini that peace has to be got, Sir Samuel buttered the Dictator and Italy in a manner which struck anti-Fascist Labor M.P.'s as rancid. "We have no wish to humiliate Italy nor to weaken Italy," cried Britain...
...labor productivity that exceeds that of the foremost Capitalist countries. The Stakhanov movement is such a movement. It opens up new prospects for the practical strengthening of Socialism in our country and for turning it into the (world's) most affluent land.'' Communism at Last? The main smash of Stalin's remarks on Stakhanovism was intelligible only if one realizes that the Soviet Union has never been Communist, is not now Communist, but hopes some day to become Communist. Today it is Socialist, after a fashion. Years ago Stalin referred, somewhat wistfully, to "Socialism, that first...
...clock. The first half of the program, consisting entirely of Christmas carols will be sung by the 80 members of the Club form the gallery of the great dining hall, accompanied by the organ. The second half, made up of more varied songs, will be done from the main floor of the hall...