Word: powerfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case, the U. S. cannot make a decision of any sort that will not profoundly alter the balance of world power. With half the steel capacity of the world, with immense reserves of cotton, oil and wheat, any U. S. decision that materially limits war-time shipments would in effect alter world geography as much as if Hitler seized the Ukraine. Lesser embargoes would amount to lesser geographical rearrangement. So regardless of intention, the U. S. plays a part in power politics-with the responsibilities and the risks of a world power...
...Another power in Danzig, Mr. Chamberlain said, could "block Poland's access to the sea and so exert an economic and military stranglehold upon her." While there was no question of "any oppression of the German population in Danzig" and the present status of the City was "not basically unjust or illogical," he believed that in a "clearer atmosphere possible improvements could be discussed...
...This week- the 14th of July—France will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Fall of the Bastille. This year the French Government is expected to outdo past performances in parading the power & splendor of French armed might on the Champs Elysées in Paris. Attending the celebrations will be Sultan Sidi Mohammed of French-protected Morocco, and Emperor Bao Dai of Annam, in Indo-China. Native troops from the French Empire will march alongside crack French regiments. Also in line will be a detachment from British Guards Regiments which have gone to France more than once...
...last 15 years have originated in Russia. A few shepherds, it is said, now follow their flocks on bicycles. Ulan Bator Khoto, the capital, has three-story buildings, a theatre and traffic lights, although camels are more numerous than automobiles. Baby industries-machine shops, an arsenal, a power station, leather, shoe and textile factories-have been established. Six months ago excited Mongols raced their tough little ponies against the first railroad train they had ever seen when service was started on a 25-mile narrow-gauge line connecting Ulan Bator Khoto with the country's only coal mine. Three...
...have taken the other side of the Mongol class struggle and lavished gifts and titles on the hereditary princes who have fled from Outer Mongolia. Some day, the Japanese tell them, there will be an independent Mongol confederation and the princes dispossessed by revolution will regain their land and power. In return, when the time comes for war with Russia, they are expected to lead a counterrevolution in Outer Mongolia and help fight...