Word: means
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Washington is a 9 o'clock town. Lights that burn late mean not hilarity, but grim business. Last week significant night lights glowed in the two huge, forbidding grey piles that flank the trim beauty of the White House-the Treasury on the East, the State Department on the West...
...most good Germans it was something of a shock. Had not they been told for six years that Russia was their bitterest enemy? But that didn't mean the Pact wasn't a wonderful thing. Did it not plainly mean peace? Now they would get from the Poles what rightfully belonged to them, and Russia, their friend, wouldn't march through to attack them. Now the "encirclement" of the democracies was at an end. Now it was certain that England & France wouldn't fight. If there was to be a war, it would...
...than originally advertised. The effort for peace continued. Ambassador to Germany Sir Nevile Henderson had one last talk with Hitler, just to get everything straight. From this interview Sir Nevile flew straight home to report. For 48 anxious hours the Cabinet worked to settle on a formula that might mean peace without retreat. At last they composed their answer: urged negotiation, offered mediation, agreed to discuss the German colonial question, trade relations and even reduction of armaments-but not in an atmosphere of war. Hitler must settle his quarrel with Poland, and Britain would stand by her ally. Sir Nevile...
...came, the custodians of Europe's civilization knew it would mean a long silence for man's communion with literature and art. But they were ready for it, sure that somehow knowledge would survive in the dark chambers and subterranean crypts where they had secreted...
...peace, last week's crisis will also leave an indelible mark on the U. S. economy, forcing agriculture to recognize that its continental market is gone. The new German-Russian agreement ends hope of the U. S. regaining its lost German markets for cotton and foodstuffs, may mean that U. S. trade will be squeezed out of Central Europe altogether. Germany's new economic tie-up with Russia might enable her to reduce her 1938 purchases here ($107,588,000, down from an average of $400,364,000 in 1926-30) to zero. Perhaps more important...