Word: succored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Exactly one hour after the League Assembly had voted to lift Sanctions from Italy and refuse succor to Ethiopia, Herr Greiser marched into a session of the League Council and with calculated insolence of manner addressed in German the luckless Council President, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden whose handsome young face was soon beet-red. In unprintably coarse language Herr Greiser attacked Mr. Lester to his face on personal grounds and demanded a free hand in Danzig for Nazis to administer their brand of "law and order...
...psychologies, both British and Italian, new First Lord Sir Samuel had spectacular "sham battles" fought at Malta during the week. Simulating Italian bombers, British planes droned over Malta for three hours. On land antiaircraft batteries belched sheets of flame. British first-aid squads dashed about the streets pretending to succor the imaginary wounded, this bit of realism being frankly copied from Germany and Japan...
Until his "Baby Bonds" could be sold, M. Auriol turned for temporary succor to the Financial Oligarchy, obtained from the Regents of the Bank of France an overdraft of $10,000,000 on which to keep his Treasury going for the moment. Socialist Auriol said he will not take the franc off the gold standard, will not nationalize but only "reform" the Bank of France and will not fail to balance the Budget...
Italy's conclusive victory in Ethiopia. British discouragement with the League of Nations and with Franco-British co operation last week (see p. 23) saddened M. Blum. In his Le Populaire he blew a valiant bugle blast of succor...
Hungary, Austria and Switzerland, impotent kittens, disclosed that the Lion had also asked their '"military aid'' as "a duty to the League," should Britain be attacked. The kittens, being the Fascist Eagle's immediate neighbors, announced that Great Britain can expect no succor from them by land...