Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Burton K. Wheeler. From Senator Guffey, a spokesman for the New Deal, this statement was not remarkable, but from Senator Guffey, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee whose job is to get Democratic Senators re-elected next year, it was dynamite. Next day, when the Senate came to order for the last time this year Senator Wheeler said...
...nation abruptly broke diplomatic relations with another, went so far as to shut off inter-nation telephone communication. Foreign correspondents and diplomats gasped. It was an action such as is seldom taken unless war is imminent, and it occurred because a small Czechoslovak factory refused to fill a commercial order for the Government of Portugal. Although Premier Dr. Antonio de Oliveira Salazar of Portugal, who ordered his Minister José da Costa Carneiro to leave Prague is a dictator and therefore unaccountable, the chancelleries of Europe were astonished at his action...
...surface the squabble seemed childish. The Portuguese Government ordered 600 light machine guns from Czechoslovak Arms Manufacturing Co. at Brno for its rearmament program. The factory first agreed to supply them, then demanded a written declaration that the arms were exclusively for the Portuguese Army, finally welched on the entire order. Portugal, insisting that the factory was actually Government owned and that cancellation of the order had been made "under pressure of those who wish to prevent or impede Portugal's rearmament," broke relations without further warning. Behind this act lay a simple inference...
Portugal has a standing army of less than 30,000 men and 600 light machine-guns on a single order was obviously ridiculous. Dictator Salazar's Portugal is now an unofficial ally of Generalissimo Franco's Rightist Spain. So there was no reasonable doubt whither the 600 machine guns were destined...
...Bren," light as an automatic rifle with unequaled freedom from jamming. The British Army recently adopted the Bren gun, planning to import the patterns and tools for their production in England. But Britain's haste in armament was such that she felt obliged to place large interim orders with the small Brno factory. As a big customer she might well have demanded that small customer Portugal should not be allowed to place an order that would interfere with her deliveries. Since Britain has the least interest of the three in Leftist Spain, and since Portugal is her oldest international...