Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...walked out the door on the Government side of the House, thereby signifying his assent to the granting of war powers to the Government. Implicit in Prime Minister Chamberlain's speech, no less than in the news of war over London, was an acknowledgement that Churchill had been right. For six bitter, hog-ridden years he had pounded on his argument as tenaciously as Cato the Elder demanding the destruction of Carthage: that a rearmed and rearming Nazi Germany was a menace...
...Prime Minister's delay, 4) his attacks on Munich as paving the way for a new crisis. Vindicated above all was his vision of the ideal British Empire as a force for social progress, an ideal undermined by 20 years of jeers from the Left, indifference from the Right...
...Mussolini, less than any other major head-of-State in Europe, could not afford big war right now. Italy is poor. Gasoline went to 95? per gallon last week. Coffee above $1 per Ib. - i. e., did not exist. Italy is peace-willing (General Italo Balbo spoke for other Army men when he urged that Il Duce try to carry out President Roosevelt's peace suggestion). And Italy was scared...
Slight, grey-haired, slack-chinned General Ismet Inönü, right hand man and successor to the late, great Mustafa Kama! Atatürk, is peculiar among statesmen in that he is quite deaf. President Ismet Inönü, who in his soldiering days wanted to go on fighting the Greeks long after The Atatürk knew he had been whipped, is also quite fearless. Last week into the deaf ears of this master of the Dardanelles poured blandishments, at his stout heart were hurled threats, as Ambassador Franz von Papen sought to detach Turkey from...
...another personally," wrote Dr. Noble in the Collecting Net* last week, "even where there are no sexual or individual external differences which the human eye can distinguish. [They form] social hierarchies. One fish can strike a second fish without being struck in return, and the second has the same right of 'passing the blow' to a third individual. These . . . 'pecking orders' owe their existence not to strength but to psychic factors, such as the period of residence in an area. . . . Many fish devote most of their energies to trying to change their social status...