Word: mutuality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House [propaganda] organization did its unsuccessful best to extract from the foreign office a precise statement of what the country was fighting for (see Sir Campbell Stuart's Secrets of Crewe House). No such statment was ever produced, and the Great War came to a ragged end in mutual accusations of broken promises and double crossing...
...such a speech at such a time, but one could guess that the old man, having once conducted Britain through a war himself, would naturally be inclined to super-criticism of the conduct of this one. Between Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Lloyd George has long existed something less than mutual amity. During the last war Mr. Lloyd George appointed Mr. Chamberlain Director-General of National Service. Summed up Author Lloyd George later in his memoirs: "It was not one of my successful selections...
...Turkish Military Mission, wined & dined every night by lavish hosts who included the Lord Mayor of London, readily "initialed" a long-term agreement of mutual Turkish-British support, but refused to "sign" and indicated that what Turkey will actually do cannot be decided until President Ismet Inönü knows, among other things, just how much support the Bank of England is willing to give Turkish currency and just how much in the way of armaments the British care to send to Turkey. In circles close to His Majesty's Government the "difficulties" of shipping arms to Turkey...
Some Lancashire Sam dropped his musket somewhere on the Western Front last week. And by what seemed a mutual agreement with the enemy, no officer pleaded with him to pick it up and get on with the battle. All was quiet. There was here a scouting party, there an exchange of salvos. But even those had an unreal quality. "It is not a very furious war at present," remarked a French officer to a group of newspapermen visiting the front...
HELSINGFORS, Finland--Soviet Russian troops numbering close to 25,000 began marching into Estonia tonight to occupy the strategic islands of Oesel and Dagee and set up military garrisons under provisions of the now Soviet Estonian pact of mutual assistance...