Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offered to cede territory to win Peace*; that Italy has juridical claims upon British and French tolerance of her intrusion of Ethiopia based on the treaty of 1906 and the exchange of notes of 1925; and finally that in the past, when British aid has been offered in a spirit of idealism to native peoples such as the Arabs of famed Colonel T. E. Lawrence's Revolt in the Desert, results have too often been dishonorable...
Rivers of ink spurted from Geneva last week as into action sprang charming Mme Geneviève Tabouis, brightest spirit among that sector of correspondents who feel that they can mold a better world by twisting every story to the advantage of the League of Nations. They felt with an honest, apostolic zeal that they must kill "The Deal" by which Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin of Great Britain and Premier Pierre Laval of France had undertaken to make peace between Italy and Ethiopia at the latter's expense. Before the terms were officially known Mme Tabouis of Paris...
...peace at the price of partitioning Ethiopia to make a Fascist holiday. Broadly speaking the proletariat, the lower classes and nations governed by Socialists (such as the Scandinavian kingdoms) were for delivering the death blow to original Fascism by means of Sanctions and then civilizing Ethiopia in a community spirit...
...grasp of native mentality applied by Mr. Maurice Drummond Peterson, technical expert of Britain's Foreign Office, in concocting The Deal. It provides that Italy must evacuate, surrender and restore to Ethiopia her Holy City of Aksum. "Praise be to God!" cried the Abuna. "Let the Holy Spirit descend upon these conditions. These are Words...
...guided the Metropolitan's affairs shrewdly and cosily. At its best his long regime stood for many a stirring performance, for the presentation of many a top-notch singer, for real opera glamour. The end was different. Though the tired old impresario was granted every honor, his spirit seemed broken when Depression left his Company impoverished and its directors resorted to a tin-cup campaign...