Word: shock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British and French diplomacy had just suffered a shock from the retirement of anti-Fascist Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff as Russia's Foreign Commissar (see p. 22). The suspicion was well-founded that the Soviet Union had suddenly become disinterested in a Stop-Hitler alliance with the West. On the floor of the British House of Commons Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had to answer angry charges from Opposition M. P.s that he had been "dilatory" in seeking a tie-up with the Soviet Union. Most pugnacious was peppery old David Lloyd George, Wartime Prime Minister, who wanted to know...
...promising Europe more guns with which to commit suicide, instead of making promises to join in the destruction of civilization, it would be far more intelligent for us to bring to them the means of salvation in the form of an absolute gift. . . ." Planner Neylan pictured the world shock which such a gesture would deliver, how all hands would drop their guns to scramble for the money...
...opener. Those statesmen who believed that the New Spain would soon forsake its Rome-Berlin allies and go over to Britain and France had a rude shock, moreover, in the diplomatic tribulations of Marshal Philippe Petain at San Sebastian and Burgos. The 81-year-old Marshal was picked as French Ambassador to Spain because it was thought he would be able to talk to El Caudillo as one military man to another. El Caudillo did not see it that...
...ready. One thing World's Fair veterans may find lacking is sex. Despite announced appearances of such numbers as Delia ("Rose Dance") Carroll, who once lifted Adolf Hitler's brows several pegs, Grover Whalen last week insisted that there would be nothing at the fair to shock anyone...
...history, 36-year-old Thomas Mesbitt McCarter, resigned to merge the State's helter-skelter trolley and transmission lines into one concern. Today his Public Service Corp. of New Jersey is the biggest company operating entirely in the State (total assets: $686,000,000). Founder McCarter's shock of hair has turned from red to white, but his bulky, florid personality is still as dominant as ever...