Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dear Sir...
Liberal Leader Sir Archibald Sinclair argued that millions of Jews all over the world will develop harmful Freudian complexes if the Jews of Palestine, although given its richest land by the proposed partition, are denied the psychological release of owning certain sacred mounts, even though they be given other mounts. Cried emotional Sir Archibald: "Mount Pisgah will never satisfy the longings which Mount Zion inspires in the Jewish breast! I warn that the whole Jewish race would get a fixation...
...Labor pleas that the proposed Jewish State created by partition would be "too small," peppery Conservative Lieut. Colonel Sir Arnold Wilson retorted: "The largest possible Palestine could not hold 10% of the world's persecuted Jews...
...adjoining Germany, just after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor, Mr. Gordon was Counselor of the U. S. Embassy during feverish weeks while the Reichstag was burned down and the Nazis pursued their bludgeoning Revolution. With the then British Ambassador to Germany Sir Eric Phipps vigorous Mr. Gordon teamed and they were long the only two diplomats in Berlin who stickled for their nationals' rights and stood up to the Nazis. They are credited with having persuaded that non-Nazi German gentleman, Baron Constantin von Neurath, that it was his duty to stay on as Foreign Minister when, upset...
...Races (Groucho, Chico & Harpo Marx); The Road Back (John King, Richard Cromwell); King Solomon's Mines (Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Anna Lee, Roland Young, Paul Robeson); Wee Willie Winkle (Shirley Temple, Victor McLaglen); Knight Without Armor (Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat) ; They Won't Forget (Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Edward Norris) ; Topper (Constance Bennett, Gary Grant, Roland Young...