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Word: quarrelling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...former Harvard Counsellor says that his immediate quarrel with the Communist Party is that its leaders have made definite statements defending the pact without the necessary information on which to base an intelligent opinion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hicks Resigned Because He Can Not "Be Effective" in Communist Party | 9/28/1939 | See Source »

...embargo on arms to all belligerents gives Adolf Hitler almost the equivalent of an Atlantic fleet, because Great Britain and France can get no arms from the U. S. 2) Britain and France are fighting the fight of democracy against world revolution, are not just engaged in another imperialistic quarrel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Great Fugue | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...wars in Europe are not wars in which our civilization is defending itself against some Asiatic intruder. . . . This is not a question of banding together to defend the white race against foreign invasion. This is simply one more of those age-old struggles within our family of nations-a quarrel arising from the errors of the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Hero Speaks | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...than of conquest, although performed the same way as the crashing German onslaught-mechanized forces piercing far ahead, infantry on slower trucks bringing up the rear. Conjunction of the west-moving Russian horde with the east-flowing Germans was awaited tensely. Would they embrace each other? Or would they quarrel over their prey? The answer soon came: the Nazi Air Force cooperated heartily with the Soviet spearheads to bomb and flatten even the slightest resistance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Red Sprint | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...would fall by the Nazis' "sickening technique." There was a roar from the House when he pounded the table and cried: "The German Chancellor has not hesitated to plunge the world into misery to serve his senseless ambitions." There was a louder roar when he said, "We have no quarrel with the German people except that they allowed themselves to be ruled by a Nazi Government" (see "White Papers" p. 38). But Prime Minister Chamberlain did not say what the House had nerved itself to hear, that Britain had declared war. Before Mr. Chamberlain left he spoke to Winston Churchill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Great Change | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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