Word: power
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fears, with his finger moving toward a button which-if he presses it-will explode what is left of civilization. . . . But the choice is still open. There is no truth in the plea that Hitler has gone too far to start over. By a single impulse of will power he could regain solid foundations of health and sanity. ... If there is friendly action we will match it on our side. If there is renewed aggression we will make...
...Emperor -which invariably accompany important Japanese decisions and invariably give rise to rumors that the Cabinet will fall. Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita, who had many a time publicly plumed himself on having accomplished the Anti-Comintern Pact, was busy word-swallowing; Premier Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, who came to power last January because he had Fascist leanings, looked as if he would topple over when his leaning posts were suddenly withdrawn...
...nations affected by the Soviet-German Pact, Japan was hardest hit. Before it, she had been a second-rate power with first-rate connections; after it, she was a no greater power with no connections at all. Nobuyuki Abe certainly realized it. "Japan," he said, "will have a troubled future...
Great Britain, "at two hours after zero," planned to run for cover with its entire domestic radio system, using "wired wireless" over telephone and electric power lines. This system would be proof against any sort of interference except a direct hit on a central transmitter. For that sort of emergency, BBC has already set up stand-by transmitting apparatus in secluded spots away from England's easily bomb-sighted industrial centres. BBC's war emergency plans also included shutting down its television transmitters, releasing the ultra-high frequencies for special military services...
...apparatus. France's highly "atomized" radio system, a freestyle, non-network jumble of 27 Government and private stations, by its nature is proof against such hurts as the bombing of a central transmitter. Some standby Government transmitters have been built in remote country locations, and equipped with Diesel power units for use in case of bombed local power lines. One function of these new transmitters may be to outshout Germany's mighty, new 500-kilowatt station, pulled out of the Nazi hat two months ago by Joseph Goebbels at Oldenburg, near the Dutch border, 30 miles from...