Word: partings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Americans love our land as much as Herr Schöttle [TIME, March 20] loves his but we do not have to commit harakiri or rob, degrade and enslave one part of a people in order that the other part may exist...
...plant another cotton crop. For if there was anything the U. S. apparently did not need, that thing was more cotton. Hanging over the market was an enormous carryover of 13,000,000 bales, twice as much as the U. S. would use in a busy year. The major part of this hoard-11,250,000 bales, 5,625,000,000 pounds-lies in warehouses in the South, assigned to the Government for "loans" in hock to the U. S. taxpayer, who is paying $123,000 a day to keep it in out of the rain. If it were...
...they had previously lost to the Rumanians. Revisionist-mad Hungarians long for the return of the Banat, Bukovina and Transylvania, old Hungarian provinces lost after the World War to Rumania, peopled now by some 1,500,000 Magyars and 800,000 Germans. Bulgaria has never forgotten that she lost part of the province of Dobruja to Rumania in 1913 and that some 500,000 Dobrujans are now Rumanian subjects. Bessarabia, to the northeast, with 1,500,000 Ukrainians, Russians and Poles, was absorbed by Rumania from Soviet Russia in 1920. Of Rumania's five neighbors, only two-Yugoslavia...
...distrustful of British official policy, there were also more rumors than ever of a change in the Government itself. Former Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden still talked of a national Cabinet. Mr. Chamberlain was represented as wanting to have a Laborite in the Government, but the Labor Party wanted no part of the Prime Minister...
Whether or not surrender was the best means of salvation, it was the better part of valor. In the south, through Córdoba and Toledo, the Franco main armies were reported advancing, meeting with no resistance. At Valencia it was reported that Loyalist troops had been ordered to withdraw without risking further bloodshed. All that seemed to remain was Franco's own triumphal entry into Madrid and the mopping up of the south, a procedure that in Catelonia required only a few weeks following the collapse of Barcelona...