Word: recentes
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...Jesuit-trained Chancellor Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg of Austria; and, as host, Hungarian Foreign Minister Kalman de Kanya. Unfortunately for them, Austria and Hungary are no longer so important to Italy as they seemed when they were the only sizable satellites II Duce could get to revolve around Rome. In recent months Yugoslavia has come under strong Italian influence (TiME, Dec. 20 et ante) and Germany, the planet at the other end of the self-styled "Rome-Berlin Axis," has brought Rumania under its influence. Therefore Premier Mussolini had not considered it necessary to go personally to Budapest, and Count Ciano...
Thus Yugoslavia served notice that she no longer considers France, still nominally her ally, "dominant" in the Danube basin. The recent tour of Danube states and Poland by French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos (TIME, Dec. 20, et seq.) was followed immediately by the setting up in Rumania of a pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic regime unfriendly to France. When Premier Stoyadinovich sounded off, the Delbos journey appeared to have been almost a total loss. However, M. Delbos' worries were at the moment closer home. His Government had fallen...
...recent months French political police have discovered grave armed plots against the State. But the Popular Front Cabinet of Premier Camille Chautemps, supported by a coalition of Communists, Socialists and Radical Socialists, kept the French public in the dark. A score of Rightists, few prominent, were arrested, but their loud demands to be accused of treason and given their day in court were ignored. Fortnight ago, with the evident consent of the General Staff, a general on active duty declared that there was to have been a Communist coup d'etat on November 16, but that word...
...talk Bernard is expected to comment on recent speeches by the President, Assistant Attorney General Jackson, and Secretary of the Interior Haroldd W. Ickes in relation to possible legislative action by the House...
...last year's best books, Clifton Fadiman made a plea to young authors that they write with more care towards the use of words. Wilson Follett complained that the definition of a sentence as "a complete thought expressed in words" had become obsolete. The economist, Stuart Chase, in a recent provocative article, urged that the way to make language a better vehicle for ideas was to pursue the science of semantics, which teaches that the two main sins of language are identification of words with things and the misuse of abstract terms...