Word: send
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...negotiations had been left slightly ajar, the opening was much too small for Führer Hitler, with his pride and his conquests, to slip in. The ordinary Briton applauded and at the same time scanned the skies for the German bombers that the Nazis had threatened to send over when the war began in earnest...
Saturday, Sunday, Monday passed after Dr. Dietrich's warning and still Herr Hitler did not say the word that would send bombers roaring over London and Paris. There was talk of summoning to Berlin Italian and Russian emissaries for a conference of war. It was doubtful, however, whether the Italians cared to talk things over with the Russians...
...Archduke Robert, 24, second son of the late Austrian Kaiser Karl, was sent from Belgium to Paris by his brother Archduke Otto, 26, the Habsburg Pretender, with an offer to recruit a full division of Austrian refugees and send them to fight on the Western Front if Britain and France will announce as one of their war aims "restoration of Austria as an inde pendent State." Already in France with a similar proposal was Austria's onetime Heimwehr troop leader and Vice Chancellor, Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, onetime friend of Adolf Hitler, who recently ordered confiscated...
Soviet Demands. The war-ready Finns took pride in moving with snail-like slowness at the crack of Joseph Stalin's demand that they send a delegation to Moscow (TIME, Oct. 16). Instead of coming by air, as the panicky envoys of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have done, Finnish Chief Delegate Dr. Juho Kusti Paasikivi rolled comfortably into Moscow by train one morning. At 2:30 p.m. Soviet Premier Viacheslav Molotov received U. S. Ambassador Laurence A. Steinhardt who brought from President Roosevelt a personal message of "earnest hope that nothing may occur that would be calculated to affect...
...adds the final denunciation that "the fittest and best of the nations are sent out to be killed, and the trash stay at home to breed more trash and plan more wars." It is in answer to this situation that Professor Hooton would send both the mentally deficient and the congenitally deformed to fight the wars...