Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the frontiers). French Morocco and Algeria, granaries as well as a source of French manpower (total population of France's African Empire: 41,000,000), were valuable to France in proportion as the Mediterranean remained free to transport. Along the Mediterranean's northern shore the line-up was still more confused. French naval bases at Toulon and Villefranche, guarding French communications with Africa, threatening Italian coastal cities; Italy, with her 105 submarines, Europe's biggest fleet; the Dalmatian coast of Yugoslavia, long wanted by Germany, source of friction in the Axis when it ran at its best; Greece, guaranteed...
...honor and no scruple of neutrality which need forbid us to deny it, that the democracies of Europe are the outposts of our own kind of civilization, of the democratic system, of the progress we have achieved through the methods of self-government and of the progress we still hope to make tomorrow...
With sandbags around its entrances, green shades over its windows, the House of Commons was garbed for war. Still cool, dressed in a black suit and wearing a wing collar, Mr. Chamberlain began, "I do not propose to say many words tonight." He said about 2,000. He spoke in a low voice, fiddled with notes written on small sheets of white paper. He said that Britain's defenses were stronger than in 1914. His voice broke slightly when he read Britain's ultimatum. It grew angry when he said that if Poland remained undefended every country in Europe would...
That night, the blackest night in Europe since Adolf Hitler was a corporal, he stepped into a black car with all its lights out and sped through Berlin's blackened streets toward the East, still muttering against the Jews...
...worn. This one piece is the better choice, but if the figure is heavy brassiere and well-boned corset may be preferred. Knickers should be in Directoire style, with elastic at waist and knees, in any dark shade preferred. Nurses and other national workers who wear light frocks will still choose white or the pinks, peach or pastel blue underwear shades...