Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prepared to support Sanctions against Italy merely for the purpose of injuring or weakening the Italian people. In the present state of Europe the continuance or aggravation of Sanctions might bring about a hideous war without benefiting in the slightest the population of Abyssinia...
Millions of well-meaning people in Britain are firmly convinced that in demanding Sanctions against Italy last autumn His Majesty's Government was acting from the purest altruism. In last year's "peace ballot" more than 11,000,000 of them voted to support the League up to the hilt. Well aware of these figures, Liberals and Laborites united in heckling the Conservative Government with demands for stiffer Sanctions. Last week Major Clement Richard Attlee, Laborite Leader in Commons, popped off to Paris in an effort to persuade Socialist Leon Blum to come out strongly for a continuation...
...organization of peace and of the League of Nations is based on the fundamental condition that there is agreement between the British and French democracies. What could be more tragic than if Britain were to fail the great cause precisely at the moment when France is preparing to support it to the best of her ability...
...Mahatma Gandhi.* He, said she, believes "that women should control the whole question of family-how many children and when. He went me one better on that score: I believe that men should say how many children and the women should say when. After all, the fathers have to support the children." But Mrs. Sanger did not bring away St. Gandhi's complete indorsement of her work. Explained she: "He just didn't know much about the subject...
...partly due to the invasion of women smoking cigarets." But whatever the cause, said he, the Cigar Progress Board was out to restore the cigar's oldtime prestige. Cigar makers, who will save some $3,800,000 this year through invalidation of AAA processing taxes, will support the following CPB efforts...