Word: soon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Peace and Barter. In a joint statement attached to the Protocol and also signed by von Ribbentrop and Molotov, they declared that Germany and Russia have now laid "a safe foundation for lasting peace in Eastern Europe" and "will direct their joint efforts toward searching ... as soon as possible ... an end to the war existing between Germany on the one hand and England and France on the other." Should their efforts fail "then the fact would be established that England and France are responsible for continuation of the war and in case of continuation of the war the Governments...
...knocking the Chinese Army on top of the head while infantry dealt uppercut after uppercut, the Japanese went ahead fast-along the corridor into Hunan from Kiangsi, to within 20 miles of Changsha. At week's end Chinese Government officials said that the city, being unimportant strategically, would soon be abandoned. At one time, said Japanese reports, the Chinese front broke and fled so hysterically that they ran bang into their own advancing reinforcements, milling like frightened lambs. Calmly the Japanese strafed and bombed the whole bloody tangle. Fortnight's casualties, according to Japanese estimates (salt to taste...
...those terrified people that they were to get back into the boat again and save the crew of the Royal Sceptre. The joy and relief of those in the boats surprised us. Did they believe us to be barbarians? Taking to the boats in a panic like that as soon as a German U-boat comes in sight! The captain of the Browning, to my great astonishment, obeyed my orders to save the crew of the Royal Sceptre, and also he respected my order not to make use of his radio until he should reach port...
...almost forgetting there was a war in Europe, British journals grew increasingly bitter. They wanted more newsmen, fewer admirals in the Ministry. Said the Yorkshire Post: "We do not know who conceived the Ministry of Information but it was strangled in red tape at birth." The Daily Express exclaimed: "Soon we will need leaflet raids on Britain to tell our own people how the War is going!" Thoroughly disgusted, the National Union of Journalists uttered a resolution: "Under present conditions the Ministry is both a national scandal and a national danger...
...Birmingham coal dealer, Artist Brockhurst was born in 1890. At twelve he entered the Birmingham School of Art, was soon hailed as "a young Botticelli," won prize after prize there and at the Royal Academy Schools in London. A smooth success from his first one-man show in 1915, Limner Brockhurst charges up to ?2,000 for a full-length portrait, limits his commissions to ?20,000 a year. His person is as meticulous as his painting. He has a horror of Bohemianism, would rather stain his Bond Street suits with paint than cover them up with a smock...