Word: partings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Borah, vacationing at Poland Spring, Me., defended his position himself: "We cannot enter the struggle in part and stay out in part. Our boys would follow our guns into the trenches." >Franklin Roosevelt chose to issue a General Proclamation of Neutrality. Under the Neutrality Act he had to embargo arms, war materials, forbid U. S. citizens to travel on belligerents' ships. While he stalled, U. S. plane makers rushed consignments over the Canadian border and onto Los Angeles docks for last-minute shipment to Great Britain and France. >The United Government Employes (colored) memorialized President Roosevelt...
...before, B. Mussolini's Council of Ministers announced that in the German-Polish war, "whose origin lies in the Versailles Treaty," Italy would take no part. And B. Mussolini, in his reply to Franklin Roosevelt's plea for humane bombing (see p. 13), repeated once more that Italy was not fighting anyone just...
...every ten people in Poland (total population: 35,000,000) is Jewish. The reactionary, white-collar Endeks (National Democratic Party) have tried to persuade the Government to adopt Nazi tactics of persecution. The Jews, who live for the most part in ghettos and who persistently wear the black coats, beards, yamilkes (skullcaps) and haircuts the Tsars forced on them many years ago, have not had a happy time in Poland. Nevertheless, Poland's Zionists last week declared that 3,500,000 Jews "wait in full preparedness" to do their part in defending the country...
...eyes of General Smigly-Rydz, a holy war. It was a war to stop the Devil, A. Hitler, before he put horns, cleft feet and an arrowy tail on every good Catholic in Poland. It was a war in which Providence would play a part. "We shall win," declared the Premier, "by the Holy Passion of Our Lord. He will lead us to victory." But before the week was out, the Devil's legions had captured Czestochowa, the Black Madonna's hometown...
...first part of the week the white-whiskered old man at Doorn did pretty much as he had done every day for the past 21 years-worked a little on his memoirs, walked a little in his park, chopped a little wood. To Friederick Wilhelm Victor Albert von Hohenzollern, once by the Grace of God Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia, 1914 was a long way off. And the years since that morning in 1918 when they had hustled him out of Germany had been quiet years. No longer did people hate him. No longer did people want...