Word: refugee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"What right have you to expect us to have confidence in you? We have faith in Adolf Hitler because he has won it in 15 years of effort. You have nothing behind you but one year of failure. In this oath presented by your legal councilor you are hiding yourself...
Overshadowed by the World War every-where except in Latin America were the wild events in 1915 when Haiti's black President Vilbrun Guillaume Sam had 200 political prisoners bayoneted in jail, took refuge in the French Legation and was dragged out and murdered by a mob. Two hours...
Next morning the General's outburst gave Secretary of State Hull an uncomfortable half hour. Herr Rudolf Leitner, German Chargé D'Affaires, acting for Ambassador Luther who is at home in Nazi-land, called to make a vigorous protest. Mr. Hull was in a tight place. He could not admit...
"They are liberal without being icy. They are independent without deserting Christianity. They are socially-minded without becoming faddists. . . . They are experimental and opportunist without scattering and fighting the air. They are progressive without becoming latitudinarian. . . . Instead of so much emphasis on soul saving, the church must direct its attention...
TREATISE ON RIGHT & WRONG-H. L. Mencken-Knopf ($3). Not many years ago Henry Louis Mencken was the god of U. S. liberal undergraduates, his lightest obiter dicta the unquestioned orders of their day. With a new. generation his authority has waned until now he appears an old-fashioned orthodox...