Word: maye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...May 6, 1915, Ambassador Page wrote: "We all have the feeling here that more and more frightful things are about to happen." On May 7, at 4 p. m. an aide handed Page a message: the Lusitania had been sunk by a German submarine and 1,198 men, women and children were drowned, 124 of them Americans. With that, Page dropped his last pretense at neutrality. He wrote: "I can see only one proper thing: that all the world should fall to and hunt this wild beast down...
...amazement was added to horror last week by the continued insistence of official Berlin that the torpedo must have been British, fired to arouse U. S. indignation. Most charitable theory entertained by neutrals about "Atrocity No. 1" of World War II was that, while Germany's U-boats may have had orders to prey like gentlemen, the Athenia's destroyer was a Nazi hothead who could not control his trigger finger. Suspicion that a sharp order to other U-boat captains may have been issued by Berlin was aroused by the contrasting conduct of a captain who, last...
...clarify German-Russian relations. Jeers at the blockade were scarcely enough to a generation that remembered the starvation of 1918. Violence of his denunciations of British leaflet propaganda dumped on Germany suggested an underlying fear of it: "To think these laughable flyleaves might have any effect! Chamberlain may know something about umbrellas, but he knows nothing about German propaganda. . . . No, Mr. Chamberlain, we want peace, but giving up the Führer, as others think we might, is too big a price to pay for peace...
...may ask why Great Britain is concerned. . . . Why did we feel it necessary ... to defend this Eastern power when our interests lie in the West, and when your leader has said he has no interest in the West? The answer is-and I regret to have to say it-that nobody In this country any longer places any trust in your leader's word. . . . Your leader is now sacrificing you, the German people, to a still more monstrous gamble of war to extricate himself from the impossible position into which he has led himself and you. In this...
...service. . . . Lenitives are available and among the best of them is wisely chosen reading and rereading. . . . Some readers will find an inexhaustible solace in Sir Walter Scott; others will feel that Thackeray has for too long gathered dust upon their shelves. ... In the months to come many old favorites may be rehabilitated, and enthusiastic readers may rediscover or learn for the first time the magic of Tennyson, the robust courage of Browning, the thoughtfulness and lyric poetry of Landor, the observant accuracy of Crabbe...