Word: problem
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...Swiss Citizen Henri Dunant, who in 1859 witnessed the bloody battle of Solferino, Italy between the Franco-Sardinians and the Austrians, the paramount problem was to lessen the hardships of war by caring for the wounded soldier. Having seen thousands of wounded men lie on the battlefield for days in unattended agony, Dunant returned to Geneva to write his horror-filled Un souvenir de Solférino, to start a movement for an international, nonpolitical medical organization with headquarters in traditionally neutral Switzerland, with autonomous supporting units in every civilized nation. With his driving push, with the notable help...
Neville Chamberlain's political future largely hangs upon one problem of the war-the withdrawal of Italian forces from Rightist Spain, upon which the inauguration of his Anglo-Italian Pact is contingent. The British public, however, is growing more & more concerned with another problem-the continued bombing of British ships in Spanish waters by Rightist planes. Since the war broke out two years ago, 55 British ships have been attacked. Nearly half of these have been damaged or sunk by Rightist Generalissimo Franco's air force in the last two months. Making political capital out of British resentment...
Proudest achievement of Führer Adolf Hitler's internal policies has been the Nazi solution of former republican Germany's grave unemployment problem. In 1933 there were 7,000,000 unemployed in Germany. Today-according to the Reich's figures-there are only 338,000 unemployed, only 37,000 of these employable. In 1933 there were 12,300,000 workers in Germany. In 1938 there...
...member of the League in little but name, the Government of Switzerland is cool to playing host to the League which is permanently planted in a new, $10,000,000 palace in Geneva. Last week the German press took up the problem. Under Switzerland's new neutral position the further stay of "the one-sided power and propaganda apparatus of the League on Swiss soil must become a constant and embarrassing burden for the Swiss Government," warned the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung...
Always Goodbye (Twentieth Century-Fox) provides Barbara Stanwyck, as an up-to-date young woman caught in the web of social difficulties, with a perplexing problem and an extensive wardrobe. The problem is whether to marry the man she loves (Herbert Marshall), or the guardian (Ian Hunter) of her son, produced before she married anyone at all. The wardrobe is the inevitable equipment, in the cinema, of all young women who work in dress shops...