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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...precisely that premise that I tried to show last week-with great regret and not without knowledge-that I doubted. . . . I do not believe that at present there is evidence enough to justify the course recommended by Lord Darnley. . . . I am always prepared to negotiate. . . . It does not need much imagination to see the damage which some of the speeches made tonight are capable of inflicting on the nation's cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Fight to the Finish? | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Whatever one may think of those stubborn fanatics who still cling to the twisting tail of the party line, I do not believe that there need be any confusion "about the role of the communist in a liberal coalition." The role of the communist has always been a strictly disciplined progress along the narrow path of his party's policy. Previous to August 1939 this policy happened to coincide largely with that of these individuals who are perforce vaguely termed liberals. The H. S. U. meeting was but one indication of the fact that these two policies no longer coincide...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 12/19/1939 | See Source »

...permitting them to discharge superfluous employes (illegal under the Nazi job-protection laws); by letting them use "rent free" the Government warehouses in which German clogged exports are now piling up; and by directly providing "necessary capital to keep them afloat." If all this is done, "then we need not fear for our foreign trade," concluded Economist Helfferich. "The German trader may, with his inherent acumen, find new business possibilities, perhaps new pathways to his old territories overseas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Complete Standstill | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Finns used some of their limited supply of planes to bomb the Russian base at Baltiski, Estonia. This was not pure cockiness, as it seemed, because the Russians are short on seaplanes and need land bases from which to operate. If these bases could be destroyed, Helsinki and other Finnish cities would be spared many terrors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: Such Nastiness | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...mess room, another in a chateau used by Napoleon before, and by Wellington after, Waterloo. The King's comment to an artillery officer was quoted as his cheering verdict to all ranks: "As long as we keep on the way we are going now, we won't need to worry about the outcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Visitors | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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