Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nazis. Mussolini, he said, "was the first to denounce the peril of Bolshevism," and the Count's speech reassured Italians that while Il Duce remains friendly with the Führer, the Rome-Berlin Axis is not going to be extended to Moscow. This was a plain intimation that Italy thought Germany had run out on the Anti-Comintern Pact. Moreover, the Italians were warned of the Russian-German treaty only two days before it was signed. "At 10 o'clock in the evening of Aug. 21, Ribbentrop telephoned me that he was going to Moscow...
Burden of Mr. Sargent's anti-war song: It is plain that Britain is systematically and subtly poisoning U. S. minds, hopes to get the U. S. into this war in jig-time. Director of this campaign, says he, is Sir Robert Vansittart, chief diplomatic adviser of the Foreign Office; among its chief agents are Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Lothian, British Ambassador to Washington. Their U. S. victims to date: President Roosevelt, Ambassadors Joseph Kennedy and William Bullitt, Paul McNutt, the U. S. press, the House of Morgan, the Foreign Policy Association, such educators as Harvard's James...
Obscured on one hand by the world's moral indignation at the Finnish invasion, on the other by Russia's childish duplicity in announcing its reasons for starting the war, is one plain strategic fact. The Baltic States, including Finland, are primarily buffers between the two big Baltic powers: Germany and Russia. Buffers can also be jump-off points for invasion, and in invading Finland, Joseph Stalin was clearly protecting himself against the friend he has never met, Adolf Hitler. At the same time, no matter what are her other commitments with Russia, Germany cannot look with equanimity...
...Chan-shan, "Giant Horse,"hero of Manchuria; the famous Communist 8th Route guerrillas; the cream of China's Government troops; and provincial troops, who are fighting for the soil on which they grew up. Early in the war, the Japanese chased the Chinese from the great alluvial plain around Peking into Shansi's mountains. Fighting has ranged, and still ranges, all over the province. Most coveted area is the Chin River Valley at the centre of the province-a tiny, complete world shut away by cupping mountains; a valley once bright with wheat, cotton, corn, yellow rice, persimmons...
...that situation the discovery that there was room for thirty more students from Harvard, coupled with the information that these men must wait several months before they can start their training, and it becomes plain that the course is pretty well bogged up. The instruction will have to be telescoped during the second half of they year, which may put considerable strain on the students regular curriculum...