Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany, which was supposed to be strong, disappeared overnight. A decree curtailing the barter deals with the Nazis restored to the U. S. many of the orders for fuels, electrical appliances, chemicals, drugs, newsprint which had been coming from Europe. The War Ministry discussed discharging the German military mission which had been instructing land forces. And Argentina heartily endorsed a proposal originated by El Hombre Roosevelt but officially put forward by Panama: that the signatories of the Lima Declaration meet at Panama City late this month to work together on neutrality measures...
Although the mission were too humiliated to know it, they did serve a purpose. Their presence in Rome was the occasion for a realistic suggestion from Tokyo: Japan, Italy, Britain and France ought to repay the bad faith of their erstwhile friends, Germany and Russia, by banding together to end the Hitler-Stalin plot for "Bolshevization of the world." These wooden words were put in the mouth of poor old Puppet-elect Wang Ching-wei, the Chinese ventriloquist for Japanese policy...
...leader against Russia on the Eastern Front of the World War, and afterwards fought the ill-armed Bolsheviks in Latvia, Lithuania, the Ukraine. Such claim as Edward Smigly-Rydz can lay to being a military genius rests principally on those experiences and on the teachings of the French military mission which went to Poland in 1920 to show the young country a thing or two about military science. Unfortunately the Frenchmen, who by nature are the worst colonists in the world, regarded Poland as a colony. Edward Smigly-Rydz took neither to them nor to their theories of dynamic defense...
August 5. Although the conversations in Moscow seemed to make scant headway, Britain and France together sent a military mission to discuss plans for mutual defense with the Soviet Army...
...plays in his underwear. Says he : "I really think we've got a great mission here, but we have to work hard. The carillon is a folk instrument. It sings with the people...