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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...League of Nations, now composed of only 42 nations as against the 60-odd that once belonged. Bold speeches were made against Soviet aggression, especially from those far removed from the Russian border. Action came, too, when the League Assembly passed a resolution which; 1) "solemnly condemns the action taken by the U. S. S. R. against the State of Finland"; 2) "urgently appeals to every member of the League to provide Finland, with such material and humanitarian assistance as may be within its power"; 3) "recommends that the [League] Council pronounce upon the question...
...there much doubt that the great majority of Swedes firmly seconded Mr. Sandler's ideas. At monster rallies all over Sweden, huge collections were taken up for the Finnish cause. Women threw their jewels, men emptied their wallets into big barrels. At Stockholm's Finnish Legation, large gifts poured in. At least one Swedish physician turned a sizable fee over to Finland. Socialist Chairman Frederick Strom of the Stockholm City Council was cheered far & wide when he suggested that every Swede give one day's income...
...Munich Pact; President Roosevelt's proposal that Germany guarantee neighboring States against aggression, although the blistering Reichstag speech of the Führer in reply to Mr. Roosevelt is given. In effect, the White Book argues that if all the events of the last 20 years are taken as a whole, there can be no doubt that Germans and Germany have always been right. Nearest thing to a juicy revelation is the disclosure that shortly before the Führer and the late Polish Dictator Marshal Josef Pilsudski made their ten-year Peace Pact in 1934, the German Legation...
...Bishop of Chichester joined with Lords Darnley and Arnold in plumping for peace-without-victory, observing that the Government had not "taken seriously" the efforts of neutrals to mediate. Outstanding in the stuffy Church of England as a progressive student of social and industrial problems, the Bishop sharply criticized Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax for stipulating fortnight ago that Germany must offer "adequate guarantees" before peace negotiations can begin. Cried the Bishop: "Military, naval and economic guarantees which satisfy the most exacting critics have a way, after 20 years, of recoiling like boomerangs...
...verge of resigning, until he promised there would be no conscription of married men such as was later carried out under David Lloyd George and is commonplace today. Another leak revealed that Mr. Asquith was asked if Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch-Lincoln M. P. was a spy. No action was taken at the time, but this shady character decided to emigrate at once to the U. S. (where he later confessed that he had spied for Germany), eventually went to China and there became a Buddhist monk...