Word: states
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be no more cruel than Germany chose to make it, said Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax to the House of Lords. As to the war's futility, it was Anthony Eden, Secretary of State for the Dominions, the young hopeful, who went to bat. His was the hardest job of all. Why fight? Why kill off millions for another Versailles, another poor peace, yet another war? Anthony Eden took to the radio and said to the world: "The Nazi System and all that it has implied (naked aggression . . . cynical dissimulation . . . flagrant mockery . . . lawlessness . . . bloodshed . . . ) must go." The Nazis purged...
Killed in Action. Heinrich von Weizsacker, son of Baron Ernst von Weizsacker, Secretary of State in the German Foreign Ministry, in Poland; Captain Antoni Janusz, 42, winner last year of the James Gordon Bennett Balloon Race, in Poland; Dr. Florence Newsom, British Red Cross worker, in Poland, when her plane was shot down; Prince Oskar of Prussia, 24, Lieutenant of the 51st German Infantry Regiment, grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II, one of eight Princes of the ex-royal family in active service,*"while leading an attack by his company" in Poland...
Paradox of democratic countries is that as soon as one of them begins defending democracy, it ceases to be a democracy. Last week, with the Cabinet shift, France became a full-fledged totalitarian state. And Edouard Daladier, who retained the Foreign Ministry along with the Prime and Defense Ministries which he already held, became its dictator. He gathered around him, to help him draw up emergency decree laws, a collection of brilliant World War heroes. Among the seven new men in the Cabinet were at least ten wounds, three Croix de Guerre, over a dozen citations for bravery...
...gasped, drew back, while the veins of his forehead stood out in his apoplectic fury: this, he reminded his visitor, was the Soviet of Socialist Republics, the fatherland of the toiling masses, the vanguard of the antifascist struggle; that any ambassador could believe such a slander of the Socialist State made him, Molotov, wonder if he was the proper ambassador to be accredited to it. The Chinese Ambassador left, to read in Pravda the next day the laconic notice that the agreement had been made. Molotov hadn't been told...
...finds it difficult," began the pensive dictator, "to explain such a defeat [the 14-day advance of the German Army] only by the superiority of German military technique . . . and by the lack of effective assistance ... of Great Britain and France. The Polish State has proved so impotent and inefficient that it began to crumble . . . with the first military set backs. What are the causes of the situation which brought Poland to the verge of bankruptcy...