Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...added up what Britain and France might have to pay throughout the world if they fought- even if they won-he also could plainly see on the map Adolf Hitler's chosen path via Czechoslovakia at least as far as Turkey (see p. 23), with echoes from the past of Kaiser Wilhelm's dream of an axis from "Berlin to Bagdad." In its relative size on the map of trouble this Nazi threat has its place. So have portions of Africa about which there may soon be attempted trading. *Obviously if Nazis will not trade, if experience shows...
...murderous Arab-Jewish dispute over Palestine in the past ten weeks has left 1,700 Arabs, Jews, British soldiers and police dead or wounded. Into this bloody mess last week stepped the figure of Seyyid Tawfik al Suwaidi, Foreign Minister of Iraq. Invited to London by the British, Seyyid Tawfik conferred last week with the only Jew in the Chamberlain Cabinet, War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha, and with Scottish Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald. Seyyid Tawfik then proffered a plan. Ignoring Britain's original idea of partition, he proposed that Palestine be set up as an independent state under British...
Although Britain's tallest ambassador, six-foot-four-inch Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson. has spent the past four years of his diplomatic life in Egypt, until last week he put little stock in the accepted Egyptian method of removing snakes from a household. Proper procedure for this everyday occurrence is to call a professional snake charmer...
...Stephen's, exhorted 10,000 worshipers to "give outward testimony" of their faith. The "outward testimony" soon took the form of Catholic demonstrations before Nazi sympathizers. The next evening Nazi groups struck back. Storming the archiepiscopal palace adjoining the Cathedral, they hurled stones through the windows, pushed past a gateman, entered the palace itself and indulged in a little looting. Cardinal Innitzer, praying in his private chapel throughout the tumult, was reported to have been slightly injured by crashing glass from a broken window. Later, the crowd made a bonfire in St. Stephen's Square, burned a small...
...French towns where, at English colleges, the New Testament was translated from the Latin in 1582, the Old in 1609. To bring the Douay-Reims Bible up to date and to get a modernized Scripture approved by the U. S. hierarchy has been the aim, during the past three years, of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine...