Word: strivings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entry into the European circle of a Germany at peace within herself would be one of the most beneficial things we could strive for. ... But we cannot afford to see Nazidom in its present phase of cruelty and intolerance paramount in Europe...
...going to Denver and its Cathedral of St. John in the Wilderness, where at 34 he was one of the youngest Episcopal deans in the U. S. Hard-working Dean Dagwell is chairman of the Denver Bureau of Public Welfare. Said he of his election: "It leaves nothing to strive for, except to hold on to one's job through good work...
Instead, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has pocketed pride to strive for the betterment and consolidation of Central China, not immediately menaced by Japan. Some 300 miles south of Nanking at Nanchang in the fastness of Kiangsi Province he also established one of the greatest fighting air bases in the Far East. Last week this seat of Chinese air power-aviation being the sole arm in which China begins to have strength-was being transferred 1,400 miles west to Chengtu in almost totally inaccessible Szechwan Province. This move by Generalissimo Chiang resembles that of Soviet Dictator Stalin in establishing strategic...
Unless the French diplomats are a flock of drivelling idiots, they must see that German aggression can be thwarted only by prompt action of the league of Nations. Yet despite this, France continues to play drop the handkerchief while Geneva strives to rally the forces of the world against the depredations of Italy. Nothing could be more asinine than the recent statement by Laval, that while France would fulfill her covenant duties, still she would strive to find some way of enticing Benito and Haile to lie down in the jungle together...
...Tokyo last week the Imperial Government banned as "detrimental to public peace" three of the best modern U. S. books on Japan, all written by authors who strive to be objective and praise Japan quite as often as they damn her. Excerpts from the books banned: Challenge: Behind the Face of Japan by Upton Close (Farrar & Rinehart, $3): "Perhaps the most amusing of Japan's new industries is the reproduction of old American heirlooms-New England furniture and such. ... It is as hard for our diplomats to converse with the Japanese foreign office as for a man to argue...