Word: orders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...affairs one thing continually leads to another, and if any justification is required for the policy of the British Government in closing our differences with Italy it surely can be found in the action of Signor Mussolini when, at my request, he used his influence with Herr Hitler in order to give time for the discussion which led up to the Munich agreement. By that action the peace of Europe was saved...
...Some of the guns were without dials because the firm which made them went bankrupt. The guns sent from the practice camps in some cases became separated from their instruments. Further, they were sent into action without overhaul. Some predictors were out of order. Electric storage batteries were in some cases run down, although other units at the same time had spare batteries and charging plants. Certain units did not draw their full complement of stores and some stores were found to be deficient...
...that just such guns were in order has been one of Mr. Hore-Belisha's special responsibilities for the past year. Furthermore, had a Hyde Park soap-boxer, any British newspaper publisher or even any member of Parliament revealed such a horrendous condition, he would have been clapped in jail under the Official Secrets Act. What happened to Mr. Hore-Belisha was nothing. His Government immediately got the second vote of confidence in two days (355-to-130), and the War Secretary prepared to send a "simple memorandum" of instructions to section commanders about how to behave in future...
...order to have good public relations "the University must go to work to clear its own society of attitudes of snobbishness, intellectual arrogance, and aloofness from the thought and life of the average man," Eugene L. Belisle '31 says in a letter in this week's Alumni Bulletin...
...fact that, in his opinion, Landis, support of Plan E sharpened the conflict between the two, he sees the solution as coming from more and not less of this sort of action: "The problem of the University is not to disassociate itself and its members from society in order to avoid attack, but rather to play a larger and more direct role in mass social life with wisdom, courage, temperance, humility, and understanding." He says this might be the test of whether culture can operate successfully in society as a whole...