Word: right
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same day, in every Polish city and town as well as Gdynia, Poles massed and took a public oath: "We swear to defend the eternal right of Poland to the Baltic and to protect the maritime future of our country, to maintain an invincible guard in the mouth of the Vistula [Danzig]. ... So help...
...classes had one in William Ewart Gladstone (1809-98) and today the U. S. is offered another by Walter Boughton Pitkin, 62, Columbia University publicist who discovered seven years ago that "life begins at 40." Last year prodigious Professor Pitkin explained "why we need a rabble rouser of the right" (TIME, Sept. 19). Last week he tried rousing Elyria, Ohio and so many people (over 600) went to hear him that he called for a League of the Middle Class...
...cast," Herr Hitler was quoted as saying. "We cannot retreat now. Our backs are against the wall. It is not a question of knowing if I am right or wrong in posing so brutally the Danzig question. What is done is done, and we must accept the consequences. We must have our way, whatever the cost, in the few weeks which still separate us from the autumn months...
...Franco Government refused free departure to 17 Loyalist refugees lodged in the Chilean Embassy in Madrid. Chile, now governed by a Popular Front government, got very wroth, and Argentina, El Salvador, Venezuela, Cuba, Uruguay and Mexico joined in demanding that the Generalissimo respect the old Hispanic custom of the right of asylum. Unhispanic indeed sounded the humane statement of the Chilean Foreign Office on the matter: the right of asylum is not a matter of politics, simply a humanitarian principle to avoid useless reprisals. Last week in Santiago, Chile let it be known that victory was hers in the asylum...
...privilege is more zealously guarded by Latin American nations than the right of asylum in a foreign embassy or legation. In the topsy-turvy politics of South America no statesman can tell from one day to the next when the wheel of political fortune is going to turn violently against him. It is only practical that he should foster the tradition which provides him a soft spot on which to light in the event of an explosion...