Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ministry. Part of the shadow scheme calls for the building by these companies of a certain number of new factories which will not make anything at all until after Britain has gone to war. Until then the companies will keep machinery in such factories well-greased to prevent it from rusting. As there is already an acute shortage of skilled British labor to man existing factories, the idle shadow plants will hang around the neck of British aviation many interesting problems...
...Primarily, however, the King's transcendent reason for marrying Mrs. Simp son is that he ardently loves her, and does not see why a King should be denied the privilege of marrying the lady he loves." Morgan & King. This by no means ended the struggle being waged to prevent the British public from becoming in formed. Reynolds Illustrated News of London meanwhile came out with a flat assertion that U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull will be asked to silence on the subject of Mrs. Simpson "a weekly periodical with a large and influential circulation." Reynolds continued...
Meanwhile in London, sputtering Soviet Counsellor Samuel Cahan and silk-hatted Soviet Ambassador Ivan Maisky were blustering at Lord Plymouth in the Foreign Office "demands": 1) that the International Committee on Non-intervention in Spain be again convened and 2) that Britain and France "blockade" Portugal to prevent that country-which does not recognize the Soviet Union-from transshipping arms to the Spanish Whites. The exceedingly blue-blooded and frosty Earl of Plymouth, an Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs, placed the tips of his white fingers together and murmured absolute refusal...
...Exchequer Neville Chamberlain. "The decision of France to readjust the value of the franc," said Mr. Chamberlain, "must have come like the cracking of the ice at the approach of a warmer season to a polar explorer whose ship has been frozen for months into immobility. ... If we can prevent violent fluctuations of the valuation of gold as ex pressed in terms of commodities, I see no insuperable obstacles in the way of our ultimately arriving at a currency system based on free exchange of gold. . . . We will probably come back to an international monetary standard on the only basis...
...theory that the next war, like the last, is likely to be a war of positions, fought with deadlocked mass armies, and consequently more costly in terms of human life than the last. With no concrete solution to offer, he nevertheless suggests that his theoretically powerful audience can prevent war if the desire to do so is genuine. If it does not do so, he announces with ferocious urbanity, "Sirs, here are your blue-prints," in an effort to make terrible alternatives terribly plain...