Word: primed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Count in 1937. At the meetings of the Non-intervention Committee Britons particularly admired his successful duels with Soviet Ambassador Ivan Maisky. Although Dictator Mussolini consistently made a liar out of his Ambassador by violating pledges as fast as they were given, Count Grandi was able to persuade Prime Ministers Baldwin and Chamberlain to negotiate Mediterranean settlements guaranteeing the status quo. It was only when Italian Blackshirts invaded Albania that Britain reluctantly decided that Il Duce could not be trusted and turned to Russia...
Double-Dutch-damned by Nazi toy makers was Britain's Prime Minister Arthur Neville Chamberlain. Reason: the sales of German-made toys in Britain were threatened by the waxing popularity of British-made Chamberlain-with-umbrella toys...
Although the Prime Minister was not as clear and definitely not as blunt in his Danzig warning as Nazi officials usually are, he in effect served notice that Britain did not think the Germans could win their lightning-war. And the British Government fitted actions to its words...
...Arthur Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister, wants to convince Adolf Hitler that Britain will allow him no further land grabs, one sure way to do it would be to give a Cabinet job to the Rt. Hon. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, M.P. for Epping. For the past decade Mr. Churchill has been to the British man-in-the-street the personification of Empire do-or-die, and more recently as the British statesman most violently opposed to appeasing "the Huns." Accordingly he is one of the Führer's pet aversions. Several times Herr Hitler has gone...
...League of America and the Dramatists' Guild) from the Rockefeller Foundation, began hunting for unpublished plays, of which he believes there are 20,000. In old actors' homes, in garrets of theatre folk, after devious detectification, Mr. Clark and his helpers found some 400 plays. As prime examples of Americana-but not of dramatic literature-Princeton University Press hopes to publish 100 of them in 20 volumes this autumn, at $75 a set. No one was more surprised than serious, bespectacled Mr. Clark when NBC asked him to supervise production of nine Lost Plays, and comment on them...