Word: northwards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...missing for six weeks, was discovered in the place where she had been most generally believed to be hiding-Murmansk. The pride of the German merchant marine* had been sitting in Russia's only ice-free Arctic port for a full month. The account of her hair-raising northward run from New York, through the British blockade to sanctuary, came from Elbert Post, ship's cook, only Dutchman in her crew. Repatriated, he gave the story of the Bremen's, last voyage to the Amsterdam newspaper, Het Volk...
Five years out of the University of California, married but childless, Daniel De Luce was typical of the young newspapermen who last week had the first big news of a great war all to themselves. Attached to the Associated Press bureau in Budapest, he set out northward as Polish resistance dissolved into rout before Germany's mechanized might, passed lines of stolid peasants straggling into Hungary, sullen groups of soldiers retreating across the border, and reached LwÓw as it was crashing into ruins after 14 days of steady bombing by German planes...
...deliver Fisherman Franklin Roosevelt's peace appeal last week. Personally insignificant but institutionally of as great importance to Italians as George VI is to Britons, King Vittorio Emmanuele thanked Mr. Roosevelt for his idea, promised to convey it to his Government. He had not far to go. Northward on the same train with Mr. Phillips had traveled Son-in-Law Ciano, ostensibly just to get a Collar of the Annunciata from His Majesty for his "brilliant" work as Foreign Minister. The Count also returned to Rome on Mr. Phillips' heels, and before week's end the deep...
...week found Europe's peasants repairing machines, mending carts, sharpening scythes. In southern France, Italy, Russia, a decisive harvest began. A peasant army hundreds of thousands strong, strung out on a vast peaceful front from Siberia through France, was advancing by successive mobilizations as yellowing grainfields quickly ripened northward. To war-anxious Europe this peaceful mobilization meant a kind of armistice. For while peasants in uniform fight Europe's wars, they could hardly be set to fighting until they had got in the grain. And since even modern mechanized armies still travel on their stomachs, no nation could...
...collaboration in stopping the Japanese. Sir John Simon, the British Foreign Secretary, not only turned the offer down, but later, at Geneva, argued for "realism" and "flexibility" in applying the League of Nations Covenant against Japan. What the British then hoped was that the Japanese would turn northward from Manchuria and clash with the Soviet Union, leaving their huge investments in China (said to be worth $1,410,000,000) alone. Instead the Japanese marched southward, and last week Britain's diplomatic chickens of 1932 had come home to roost. Small comfort it was to the British that outside...