Word: protections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rich and almost rich, this consideration matters little. For them, relief would be extreme poverty, and they must save anyway in order to protect their usual standard. But for those to whom thrift is a real effort and virtue, for those who are striving by doing away with small luxuries to make themselves independent, self-supporting citizens, thrift means more and more a wasteful activity, and more and more citizens become dependent on the government, rather than on themselves, for economic support...
This week Cambridge has had another cold spell, and undergraduates have had some more skating on ice which was dangerously thin and appallingly rough, it is true but still ice. It is and that there is nothing nearer than the Ural Mountains to protect Cambridge from an East Wind. It has certainly seemed so to us walking to nine o'clock lectures these last few mornings...
...chief British interest in Ethiopia is Lake Tana and the Nile Basin. These represent also an interest of Egypt, which His Majesty's Government are bound to protect. In the event that Ethiopia should disappear as an independent State, His Majesty's Government should seek to secure territorial control over Lake Tana and an adequate corridor joining this lake to the Sudan...
...State Legislature, the theatres and the theatre-going public have the right to expect a much improved arrangement. The Censorship Board should include competent authorities and exclude mere political officers. Above all, the theatres are entitled to a fair presentation of their views and a chance to protect themselves...
...German citizens. The new Hitler-Blomberg decree fatefully empowers the Army to take German law & order into its hands, the Realmleader still being supreme commander of the Army, Navy and Air Force. Hereafter the Army may be ordered to "break resistance" of German civilians, forcibly take persons into custody, "protect persons or materials entrusted to their guardianship...