Word: senting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Month ago Pope Pius XII, alarmed by the apparent imminence of war, secretly sent peace appeals to the heads of European States, first step, perhaps, of a plan to mediate in frightened Europe. Although widely heralded in the world's press, the Vatican kept mum, issued no statement...
...last time it sat down at a conference table with Herr Hitler, nor the militant Fascist powers warmed to Papal intervention. But the Pope has evidently not given up hope for a Vatican get-together, as he conferred with British Minister to the Vatican Francis D. G. Osborne and sent messages to London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Warsaw. What he said to Minister Osborne remained a secret...
...Flandre, 104 German Jews turned back. On the Taurus at Veracruz an exiled Jewish chemist, learning that he could not land, took poison, told the captain he would be dead in two minutes, died. In Buenos Aires, 200 Jewish refugees on the Caporte, the Monte Olivia, the Mendoza, were sent back to Germany...
...Stafford Cripps, tall, thin, wealthy, inconsistent, indiscreet ''Red Squire" of Filkins, Labor's ablest parliamentary debater and leader of Labor's intellectual leftwing. Last January Sir Stafford proposed a Popular Front of Laborites, Communists, Liberals, anti-Chamberlain Conservatives, broke Party discipline when he sent out his proposals to Labor Party offices after Labor's executive committee rejected it. Said the London Daily Express: "The Socialist Party will be blowing out its brains if it expels Sir Stafford...
...leadership lost the World War for Germany at the outset when a timid High Command failed to keep the strength of its right wing up to the plan of Alfred von Schlieffen on the famed swing through Belgium. Conversely, the Japanese capitalized on brilliant chance-taking when they sent an army to the Asiatic mainland in 1904 with out first bothering to clear out the Russian Navy...