Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Territorials. In the Cabinet and out his chief characteristics were his impeccable clothes and his championship of meeting force with force. Early last week, just before World War II seemed sure, Major Eden put on his King's Royal Rifle Corps uniform, posed in front of a tent (see cut), hurried off to his battalion guarding London's East End docks. But before Great Britain fired its first shot and practically every other able-bodied male had followed him into khaki, Major Eden quit the docks, took off his uniform, accepted a job (as Dominion Secretary) in Neville...
...Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor August Ernst, now 57, was discovered living quietly in Potsdam, near Berlin. Almost forgotten last week was the deep hatred which citizens of the Allies held for the Crown Prince, almost forgotten such famed cartoons as the one the Chicago Herald printed in World War I (see cut). Caption: "Drink...
Elliott Roosevelt, like his father (see p. 13), had his say over the radio: "We haven't been neutral in spirit, because it is impossible for decent human beings to remain neutral in the face of scientific barbarity, but as a unit, as a nation, we will have to make up our minds as to just what our course of action will be as regards this awful destruction...
August 23. From Berlin British Ambassador Sir Nevile Henderson flew to Berchtesgaden with a note from Mr. Chamberlain saying: "War between our two peoples would be the greatest calamity that could occur. . . . I cannot see that there is anything in the questions arising between Germany and Poland which could not . . . be resolved without the use of force...
...Hitler proclaimed to Germany: "The German people know that the British people as a whole cannot be made responsible for all this. It is that Jewish plutocratic and democratic upper crust, which, in all peoples of the world, desires to see only obedient slaves and which hates our new Reich because it sees in it a model for social work which it fears because it might prove contagious in their own country...