Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...campaign against Ethiopia--a campaign that must soon be dignified with the name of war. Britain, her Empire directly challenged for the first time since 1914, is becoming increasingly involved, and appears ready to meet the challenge. France must follow suit; she cannot forsake her ally now, and expect support later when Hitler, pressed by economic necessity, starts his drive towards pan-Germanism. Open British and French opposition will bring Italy and Germany together. Whether the African conflict can be localized or not, the larger conflict can be avoided only by complete economic collapse...
...White, the new secretary, goes our pledge of earnest support and best wishes of success...
...Ethiopia. Signor Mussolini also received from M. Laval a "free hand" with respect to the dusky Empire (TIME, Jan. 21). In Paris the great passage in Premier Laval's speech last week was considered that in which he adroitly inferred that Sir Samuel Hoare had, by implication, promised British support to France should Germany attack her or attempt to seize Austria. Cried the Frenchman with enthusiasm while the Briton looked faintly uncomfortable: "In an address elevated in its thought, where was found anew the liberal tradition of England and England's sense of the uni versal, Sir Samuel Hoare told...
...utility holding company and consequently I am an 'untouchable' and probably ought not raise my voice in protest, but I have been doing it and I am going to do so increasingly. . . . The Methodist Church . . . has meant much to me. . . . However, I can no longer continue to support in my small way, either financially or spiritually, a course with which I so thoroughly disagree...
Abandoning a proposal to make the non-resident students members of the Houses, the Investigation Committee distributed 800 questionnaires to ascertain the attitude of the commuters and the amount of financial support they would be willing to give. Preliminary returns indicated that the commuters were in full sympathy with the movement...