Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proud of the holdup of Tiflis -20 dead; proud of having the guts to toss bombs from a lamppost at fully armed Cossacks; proud of the holdups on mountain roads; proud of inflaming the doubters (he had his picture painted doing it); proud of the mail-train robbery near Rostov, when he hacked his way through the side of the mailcar and had to jump for it with the train still in motion. Joe Stalin could take it. When his hovel-mates accidentally set fire to some stolen stuff he had hid in the stove, he put a hand...
...Ambassador Kennedy, retired U. S. Banker George Weeks (National City) offered his "Headley Park" on the downs near Epsom as a refugee embassy...
...Safest spot near London was judged to be Harrow, because the steeple on its hill is German aviators' prime landmark approaching London from the Channel and they would not likely bomb it down...
...whole British Labor Party sent this message to the whole German people, whose censors throttled it: "War is very near. You must clearly understand that if war comes Britain and France both stand firmly by their pledges to Poland. "Your Government does not tell you the truth. British labor, which is the friend of the German people, will tell you the truth. "There need be no war. Provided that the threat of force is renounced, there can be just and peaceful settlement of all international disputes...
What Poland had to watch calmly last week (with not nearly enough gas masks to go around, due to the Government's all-for-the-Army emergency economy) was a succession of border intrusions, in which many observers saw true Nazi rhythm. From Germany, from East Prussia, even by air from Free Danzig, came Nazi "gangs" to provoke the alert Polish guards into brief scuffles from which four deaths resulted-extreme casualties of the war of nerves. At week's end the Polish radio, protesting that "the limit of Polish patience is very near," turned from straightforward reporting...