Word: partings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Estonia and to give Estonia facilities in case the Baltic is closed to her goods (i. e. by Germany) for trading with the outside world via Soviet ports on the Black Sea and White Sea; 3) Russia and Estonia undertake to defend each other from "aggression arising on the part of any great European power" (i. e. Germany); 4) the Pact "should not affect" the "economic systems and state organizations" of Russia and Estonia...
This last clause, which carefully does not bind Russia to abstain from spreading Communist propaganda in Estonia, seemed to mean that the country will be spared for a time such outright Bolshevization as the Russians are putting through in their part of Poland. Military experts said that the Pact definitely transforms Estonia from a country capable of fighting for its independence into one completely at the mercy of the Soviet ships, planes and troops which are now to be based on her soil...
...didn't the Allies at once bomb the Ruhr and the Rhineland? Wouldn't that have brought a sizable part of the German Air Force racing back out of Poland? Perhaps, but it would also have brought reprisal bombing of Allied industries. The German anti-aircraft defense had not been tested, and neither had the Allied. The possible price in their own civilians' lives gave the Allies pause. So did their fear that not yet were they Germany's match...
Chortled Mr. Churchill: "The Royal Navy ... is hunting them [U-boats] night and day, I will not say without mercy -because God forbid we should ever part company with that - but at any rate with zeal and not altogether without relish...
Smith's Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow (acting President) : "Perhaps some of you are wishing at this moment that you might offer personal service over there. ... It is not your part. Your duty is to study hard, to try to understand ... to stretch your minds ... so that you may carry away from this place some judgment and perhaps a little wisdom for the world after...