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Word: resister (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Before a hushed, crowded House of Commons 70-year-old Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, former arch-exponent of appeasing the dictators, announced that Britain and France were negotiating with Eastern European nations (understood to include Poland, Soviet Russia, Rumania, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Greece) a tight system of military agreements to resist further Nazi aggression. In the meantime, moreover, the British Government was prepared to consider the Vistula, the river that flows through the Polish Corridor, just as much its frontier as it has long considered the Rhine. He added...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Watch on the Vistula | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...cannot resist placing on record my admiration for the splendid article on Picasso in the Art Section of TIME, Feb. 13. You have found a dynamic style in which to express the complicated explanations of art criticism, at the same time both popular and accurate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 13, 1939 | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

President Roosevelt's most trusted adviser on European affairs is 48-year-old William Christian Bullitt, U. S. Ambassador to France. Chief spokesman abroad for the President's policy of encouraging the European democracies to resist the dictators' aggressions, Ambassador Bullitt telephones Mr. Roosevelt almost daily from Paris, writes him long, chatty, informal reports on the European situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Traitor's Birthday | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Significance: What these Hungarian inconsistencies suggested was that the Magyar aristocrats, willing enough to let Germany dictate foreign policy, were resolved to resist doggedly any real threat to their internal economic and political privileges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Left v. Right Hand | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...only country which can today actively resist Fascism, says Mr. Mumford, and it should be prepared to "accept the challenge of democratic leadership." He recommends, first of all, noncooperation with the "exploiting classes in England and France in their policy of appeasing Fascism." Says he: "To cooperate with a Chamberlain is to invite upon our own heads a betrayal similar to that which Czechoslovakia encountered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Who's for War? | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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