Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ottawa last week, Canadian M.P.'s from the West demanded to know whether the Dominion Government has given or is about to give the United Kingdom "a blank check which might be filled in with the lives of young Canadians." This emotional question Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King quietly and flatly answered thus: "There are no commitments and no understandings in the nature of commitments between this Government and the Government of Great Britain or any other Government...
...Feeling of Security." In the course of further Rearmament debate in the House last week Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin made unobtrusively perhaps the most important declaration from His Majesty's Government since the rise to power of Adolf Hitler in 1933. A basic tenet of Nazi policy today is that, excluding Soviet Russia, the rest of Europe including Britain must unite in a Western Pact. This regional pact to guarantee peace only on Germany's frontiers in the West, leaving the Fatherland free to wage war in the East, has long been resisted by France with her doctrine...
...Significance. In these words of the Prime Minister the significant three were "old Locarno powers." Emphatically the Soviet Union was not one of the "old Locarno powers" which Mr. Baldwin hopes to get together as new Locarno powers. In other words the Prime Minister, by his deft use of "Locarno," said clearly, although not wantonly calling a spade a spade, that the British Government are now with the German Government and the Italian Government in wishing to make a Western Pact of the type desired by Adolf Hitler, to the exclusion of the Soviet Union. Mr. Baldwin's unanswerable...
...East. Russia is the only Great Power which could possibly be whipped in 1937 or 1938 by Germany, and then only in conjunction with Japan. Herr von Ribbentrop has thought of that too and so has Mr. Baldwin. Three months ago at No. 10 Downing Street the Prime Minister and the German Ambassador had a long talk. From this Herr von Ribbentrop drove directly to Croydon, flew to Berlin and there signed for the German Government its treaty with the Japanese Government uniting these powers against Communism and the World Revolution of the World Proletariat fomented by the Comintern from...
...Could Mussolini starve Egypt by damming Lake Tana, diverting the waters of the Blue Nile from Egypt? No, says Ludwig; only 3% of Egypt's water comes from Lake Tana, none of its precious silt. From immemorial time the Nile's floods have been Egypt's prime worry. Too little water means famine; too much, catastrophe. Since Egypt has been under England's benevolent paw, the Nile has been studied, shackled as never before. British hydrographical research costs $500,000 a year; the great dam at Aswan, built to regulate the Nile's flow, took...