Word: overent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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To peaceful folk all over the U. S. last week went a series of curdling injunctions to keep America out of World War II. Black type, slick paper, photographs of horribly wounded and starved victims of war were the propaganda materials of the American Federation of Peace. Sample atrocities:
"Insolent." The House roared with cheers for the Prime Minister. The British press soon burst out with a chorus of approval, pointing out that if the door to negotiations had been left slightly ajar, the opening was much too small for Führer Hitler, with his pride and his...
Saturday, Sunday, Monday passed after Dr. Dietrich's warning and still Herr Hitler did not say the word that would send bombers roaring over London and Paris. There was talk of summoning to Berlin Italian and Russian emissaries for a conference of war. It was doubtful, however, whether the...
Dr. Eduard Benes, who yielded the Sudetenland to Germany without a fight (TIME, Oct. 17, 1938), busied himself in Paris trying to get established a legal, provisional CzechoSlovak Government, told the Anglo-U. S. Press Club : "I believe that out of the turmoil of Europe will come a better society...
All during the week children, mothers, the sick and aged were rapidly evacuated from Helsinki (see map) until this capital of 300,000 was half empty. Viipuri was also evacuated and blacked out nightly to match Helsinki, as though Soviet bombing raids were expected. A fleet of 21 Soviet planes...