Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inner sympathy" with the British, he indicated, and his "respect" for the "great achievements of the French nation" that caused Herr Hitler throbbingly to ask: "Why should this war in the west be fought? . . . "Continuation of the present state of affairs in the West is unthinkable. Perhaps the day will come when France will begin to bombard Saarbrücken. German artillery will in turn lay Mulhouse in ruins. France will retaliate by bombarding Karlsruhe and Germany in her turn will shell Strasbourg. Then the French artillery will fire at Freiburg and the German at Colmar or Schlettstadt. Long-range...
...trying for years to get a four-power conference together, but in his plan Russia was the wallflower. That Russia is very much interested in current peace-talking was evident from the official reaction to Hitler's speech. Said J. Stalin's Izvestia this week: "One may respect or hate Hitlerism, just as any other system of political views. This is a matter of taste. But to undertake war for 'the annihilation of Hitlerism' means to commit an act of criminal folly in politics...
...tiny Danube Hotel, worked last week from 7 a. m. right around the clock to 3 a. m., employed Poet Jan Lehon as its Press Officer. In London arrived Mme Josef Pilsudski, widow of the late great Marshal, "the Father of Modern Poland" whom Adolf Hitler professes to respect. Snapped the Widow Pilsudski last week: "No one believes Hitler's speeches of good will. That man pays lip homage to my husband and surveys around him the destruction of the Marshal's life work. . . . Poland fought to the last. If it had not been for Russia...
Used though they are to their private brand of internal politics, Army men are taught to expect at least a show of decent order at the top. The indecent disorder at the top of the War Department improved neither their morale nor their respect for civilian democracy. Two years between his upper and nether bosses brought Chief of Staff Malin Craig near to distraction and collapse before he got out last June and turned his cross over to brilliant, patient General George Catlett Marshall...
...second stage has begun with respect to tutoring at Harvard. The University has been fully aroused and has now commenced a major offensive against the problem. No one can doubt its business-like intent after reading the details of the new University-sponsored tutoring bureau...