Word: powerfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Disagreeing with Playwright Shaw was Biologist Julian Huxley, who chose the London Times as his forum: "We cannot survive as a great power unless we smash Hitlerism; but if we are to prevent the growth of a new Hitlerism later, we must plan some kind of new international order." Scientist J. B. S. Haldane, who as a rule has fairly fresh ideas, wanted: 1) peace negotiations now; 2) an arrangement for "all peoples to be allowed free elections to determine their own form of government," a faithful echo of 1919 Wilsonian self-determinism...
...When the priests saw the power of the Polish landowners coming to an end," declared Bezbozknik, "they banded together with the landowners and gendarmes and took weapons into their hands...
...Everything that happened in Russia during the Revolution was repeated. They fought against the power of the toilers. . . . Many Catholic priests with arms in hand tried to protect the capitalists' domination of the workers...
Once more in 1914-18 British sea power choked and starved a combination of great continental empires, and Britain was at it again last week. But sea power may suffer many a set-back before the final conclusion...
Sept 17, 1939, was another dark day for British sea power. Surprisingly lost that day was the aircraft carrier Courageous. Last week an even more astonishing disaster occurred. The Admiralty sent an electric thrill of horror through the nation by tersely announcing, with regrets, that "His Majesty's Ship Royal Oak has been sunk, it is believed by U-boat action." Royal Oak* was a battleship of 29,150 tons, built in 1914, and her loss reduced from 15 to 14 the number of Britain's capital ships. The time and place of the sinking were not officially...