Word: quos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Durant's The Story of Philosophy (1927), 545,000. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's We (1927) ran up a sale of 594,000. Latest book listed is Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front (1929; 564,300). Only Nobel-Prizewinners: Henryk Sienkewicz, with Quo Vadis (1896; 504,600); Sinclair Lewis, with Main Street...
There at week's end matters rested with both sides hinting broadly that all reprisals might be called off IF each would agree to return to the economic status quo of last summer. Britain, however, was able to strengthen her position with a new commercial treaty with Soviet Russia to take the place of the one canceled last March at the time of the sabotage trial of British electrical engineers in Moscow (TIME, March 27). Waiting brought Britain advantages. Last year the Soviet sold twice as much to Britain as she bought. Under the new treaty Russia must...
...favorite obsessions of Marxists since the foreign attacks of 1919-1920; but I do not think that up until very recently it has represented to them anything but an annunciation of doctrine. The thing that caused them to revive this political funk is the upsetting of the European status quo established at Versailles by the refurbishment of Germany under Hitler, with the result that a territorial realignment now looms. Obviously, the likeliest power at whose expense this realignment could be accomplished is Russia; in that way a war of mutual destruction could be avoided and a political system which...
...Austria it will signify more than merely a further spread of the Fascist doctrine; it will mean that the powers of Europe have lost the first real test of strength, with Hitler's Germany, and it will mean the beginning of the end for the status quo set up at Versailles. If Germany is allowed to absorb or control Austria the post-war system of Europe which was based on the treaties of 1919 will collapse and there will be a general realignment in international politics...
...making concessions in order to secure the renewal of the Anglo-Japanese treaty. Yesterday the United States was tackled, when the Japanese offered to discuss the naval ratios which may be revised when the Treaty of Washington expires in 1935; this, of course, gives her a quid pro quo, for in return for a free hand in the Far East, Japan can offer to waive demand for naval parity...