Word: nationalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disavowed for the U. S. any "mesh of hatred." He reminded his addressees of the Kellogg-Briand anti-war pact, etc. Said he: "The supreme desire of the American people is to live in peace. But in the event of a general war they face the fact that no nation can escape some measure of the consequences of such a world catastrophe...
...lives of millions. With men saying good-by at railroad stations all over Europe, joining the colors with the strange, excited high good humor of people consciously risking death in great numbers, President Roosevelt suddenly drew attention to the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928. Under that agreement, nearly every nation in the world, including Japan, Italy and Germany, has renounced "war as an instrument of national policy...
Frequent and widespread has been the expression of contempt for the blundering and faltering progress of the democracies in the present crisis. In history's most gigantic poker game, Hitler plays a winning hand because he has the confidence of a nation behind him, while Chamberlain and Daladier feel the depressing and distracting pull of public opinion. With French Communists threatening to strike rather than submit to national defense measures and British opposition flaring against the Cabinet's City policies, the Reich stands firm and united. Seemingly Fascism has once more demonstrated its ability to outmaneuver democracy because...
Sentiment throughout the little nation was strong for defense against the Germans to the last inch, the Harvard Juniors found. Tenseness and preparations for war were everywhere in evidence...
...hundred years after the flood of British sea power drowned Holland as a first-class nation, hardworking, stubborn Dutchmen have at least succeeded in reclaiming a well-diked reputation as leading producers of tulips and cheese: But Dutch literature, which even at its high point, in the time of Erasmus and Spinoza, was always Holland's lowest point below sea level, remains almost wholly unreclaimed. Last week two Dutch novels stood out as new patches of dry land...