Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Everybody knew how the Dominions and the colonies would take it. Nobody was surprised that Australia and New Zealand last week declared war on Germany, called up reservists, promised Britain "full support." That 50 Indian potentates promised to send troops and resources, that the Fiji Islands (pop. 29,000) pledged material assistance-what did this mean except that the British Empire was acting as it always acted in a crisis...
...full-fledged independency? Strategically crucial in Mediterranean naval plans (see p. 22), a sovereign power that recognizes Britain's special interest in the Suez Canal Zone, Egypt is legally no more than an ally of Britain. This week, Egypt demonstrated how an ally could act to give support...
Since Oriental diplomacy and even war are nine-tenths Face, Japan's greatest shock aside from losing potential armed support against Russia was that Germany had not whispered a word of warning. Ambassador to Berlin Hiroshi Oshima hurried around to see Joachim von Ribbentrop soon after he got back from signing the Pact, taxing him with this slight. How long had this been in the wind? Why had he told Italy's Count Ciano and not him? Herr von Ribbentrop, who seemed to enjoy the situation, merely replied that consultations had been going on "for a considerable time...
...lesson in "false friendship, broken faith, entrapment, disparagement and repudiation. " So were the Philadelphia Record the Detroit News ("It's the same old war! We got crossed up on it once. Once is enough."), and most of the Western papers. The Washington Star thought the U. S. "should support the French and the British to the extent envisioned in President Roosevelt's original proposal for neutrality legislation." The New York Herald Tribune practically lined up with the British and French, and the Times went the whole way: "At last there is a democratic front. . . . Inevitably we are more...
Said the New York Daily Worker: "The people of Poland . . . realize the firm position of the Soviet Union in uncompromising pendence." support for (The their London freedom Daily and inde Worker used the same argument, even the same language, in praising Stalin's "uncompromising firmness" with Hitler.) The New Masses ran a series of parallel columns contrasting life in the Soviet Union with life in Nazi Germany...