Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Defense with British War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha, he summoned Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet from vacation in the country, closeted himself once more with his generals. To M. Bonnet he gave the job of checking with France's allies, letting them know that this time France meant business. To his generals he gave the word to man the Maginot Line...
...eloquence was matchless because he meant every word of it. Not for him was the Hollywood-Rudyard Kipling version of the Empire, compounded of pukha sahibs, Gunga Din, the little brown men, and domains beyond the sea-for him Empire was a living faith, a political necessity, a way of life, a practical program and sometimes almost a religion. Son of brilliant, sensitive Lord Randolph who died young, of a handsome, American mother, Young Churchill was groomed to rule from the start, never let himself or his friends forget it. At 20, after Harrow and Sandhurst, he held a dinner...
...concept of rule the philosophy of Nazi Germany was despicable to him: "Germany," he said, "is a place where a small band of ferocious men rose from the depths to dictatorship, there to take away the guarantee of life, law and liberty." To associate British democracy with Nazi methods meant the destruction of all that the Empire ever meant: "That power which burns Christian ethics, which cheers its onward progress with barbarous paganism, which vaunts the spirit of aggression and conquest, which derives strength and pleasure from perverted persecution and uses the threat of murderous force-that power cannot ever...
Bismarck once said: "Whoever is master of Bohemia is master of Europe." What he meant to say was that so long as Germany controlled the Bohemian bastion it would be relatively easy to keep invaders from the east from carrying warfare into the South German Basin or out on to the north German reaches of the Baltic plain. Similarly, command of the heights on either side of the Rhine has a lot to do with whether a war between Germany and France is to be fought in front of Munich or in front of Paris...
This did not mean short wavers were busily peddling air time to advertisers who wanted to cry their wares abroad. No station yet has a sponsor, probably because distance broadcasting has not yet had an opportunity to prove its commercial soundness. It merely meant that the X, for experimental, in short-wave call letters was becoming a thing of the past as fast as FCC got around to approving new call letters. By last week FCC had got around to approving 13 new names, still had one, Columbia's W2XE, to go. Most venerable of the call letters already...