Word: said
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a threat to go in with Germany and Russia? That a peace proposal was imminent few doubted. That Britain and France would accept it few believed. Britons, believing that its main purpose was to make Britain appear to be guilty of continuing the war, accepted its challenge beforehand. Said Winston Churchill, in a speech on war aims that observers believed made him a real candidate for Prime Minister...
...fought to preserve Europe and the world. Before our eyes now passes a vision of mad horror and gloomy despair. ... In a tumultuous life, this race has known hours of agony and periods of apparent death, but it has also seen days of uplift and resurrection." Pope Benedict XV said of Belgium: "Nations do not die." Pope Pius XII said of Poland: "Poland, which does not intend to die." And although he urged Poles not to give way to despair, not to harbor rancor through hate, he added to an audience of Poles who had begun to weep...
...years which followed Britain began to see in the devoted domesticity of the Yorks what finally was found so glaringly lacking in Edward of Wales. "She is one of us!" became what everyone said of Elizabeth, "the Smiling Duchess." Jocularly Wales would call his sister-in-law, the Duchess of York, "Queen Elizabeth" at times, and when King George V died many believed that Edward was resolved to avoid the Throne by abdicating then and there...
...What he said in his cold, precise voice was as simple as it was devastating. Instead of the $3,768,000,000 of revenue estimated last April, the Government would need no less than $8,000,000,000 for the first year of its war against Adolf Hitler...
...next day confirmed) that half the sum would be borrowed, all Sir John's emphasis was on direct taxation. The guiding principle, he informed his colleagues, would be to impose all the taxes the country could stand. Normal standards of what was popular no longer counted, said he; furthermore, one of his aims was to curtail civilian demands. "There must be restrictions directed against wasteful or unnecessary use of resources, restrictions which limit consumption of a long list of articles, the strictest economy all along the line...