Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with his family and raise them as good Americans. He may not have that privilege. The Army may retry, resentence him for his escape. The U. S. Department of Labor contends that he has renounced his U. S. citizenship, is therefore deportable as an undesirable alien. The various agencies still interested in Grover Bergdoll could let him serve his time, then return him to Nazi Germany, where he no longer wants to live...
...reckoning" to come. The Italians went Dr. Goebbels one better. Il Messagero, of Rome, flatly warned: "If within a certain time the democracies do not yield to councils of reason we go to war." The Fascist official newsorgan Resto del Carlino roared: "The time of reckoning is near. . . . They still deny us Tunis, Djibouti, Suez and also deny Danzig and colonies to our ally, Germany. A transfer of power is near. The future is ours...
...more expedient to welsh on the Jews, who are on the run in many parts of the world, than to welsh on the Arabs. Arab friendship in a Mediterranean war of the sort Signor Mussolini has been bellowing about would be of great value to Britain. Nevertheless, there were still plenty of members of Parliament who rose to decry the Palestine plan. Elder Statesman David Lloyd George, head of the War Cabinet that made the Jewish Homeland pledge, called the Government's policy an attempt "to crawl out of their share of a definite bargain." Labor and many normal...
...still Edouard Daladier, but he had grave doubts how much longer he would remain Premier of France. At that conference he had written off, as a total loss, the strong alliances which since the World War had kept France the biggest power in Europe. He had been caught in a corner, trapped because he had not dared break the first rule of modern French politics-never antagonize England. The French people might forgive Edouard Daladier for breaking his Government's word, pledged until only a fortnight before, that France would fight before yielding Czechoslovakia, but he could not expect...
Daladier solved his problem in opportunistic fashion by swinging still further Right. Because of the international crisis, Parliament twice granted him temporary power to rule by decree. He appeased the Right by doing away with the 40-hour week-by stages both before and after Munich. There were many small strikes and one big attempt at a general strike, all defeated. The nation wanted unity and strength and was willing to back him. The extreme Left felt betrayed but the Right (except for a few strong-headed nationalists) forgave him all. Even so, he had many narrow escapes from being...