Word: signed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Present policy of the Yugoslav Government is to remain neutral. Yugoslavs know well that acceptance of the Dictators' proposals that she sign up with them m the anti-Comintern Pact almost inevitably means the end of independence, but that outright rejection of any and all alliances might be equally disastrous. Noteworthy it was last week that Foreign Minister Alexander Cinca-Markovitch, after chatting for several days with Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano in Venice, traveled to Berlin to see Führer Adolf Hitler. Then he went back home, announced proudly he had "signed nothing...
Meantime, however, President Roosevelt gave no sign of disclaiming third term aspirations. In a letter to the Young Democratic clubs, Mr. Roosevelt repeated the gist of his Jackson Day ultimatum to all Democrats (TIME, Jan. 16). Said he: "No victories are won by shooting at each other. There never was and never will be a political party whose policies absolutely fit the views of all its members. Where men are at variance with the course that their party is taking, it seems to me there are only two honorable courses-to join a party that more accurately mirrors their ideas...
...argument crumbles when the facts of the case are examined. Ninety-eight per cent of all schools eligible for the grant have accepted it and this group contains-some three-hundred private non-sectarian colleges, including Yale, Columbia, and Radcliffe--none of whom have yet shown any grave sign of government corruption...
Signer. Even in western Europe it was aggressors' week. At Burgos it was announced that Generalissimo Francisco Franco had definitely thrown in his lot with the Dictators: had signed up with Germany, Italy, Hungary and Japan in the anti-Comintern Pact. For the French Government this was a severe defeat. Before recognizing Franco's Government France had tried to get a promise that Spain would not sign the anti-Comintern Pact. Failing that, France had sent her most distinguished soldier, Marshal Philippe Petain, as Ambassador to Burgos to deal gently and well with the Spanish soldier-dictator. Moreover...
Only a few lucky physicians would be invited to view each operation. Dr. Cushing always dressed in grey, made few remarks. Only sign when he struck an unexpected problem: he would lightly rub his hands together, or dip them quickly in the bowl of antiseptic solution which stood near the operating table...