Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chamberlain is not the true England, the Democratic England-just as the France of M. Daladier is not the France of the Popular Front, the true Democratic France. . . . This is the first time in my career as a commentator on international affairs that I am left largely speechless. . . . The thing that I cannot understand and seems almost inconceivable is that no storm of indignation in England or France has yet swept the Chamberlain and Daladier Governments out of office! . . . What has happened to the leaders of the Popular Front-to the elements that compose the Popular Front-that they...
Since last spring many visitors to Czechoslovakia have reported one thing, Every Czech, high and low, with whom they talked-and President Eduard Benes gave scores of audiences-declared in substance with passionate conviction: "Even if our allies fail us, no matter if we are left to face overwhelming odds and certain defeat, nevertheless Czechoslovakia will fight rather than yield...
Secret documents are always published after a major war, years afterward as a general thing. But just before the peace of last week (see p. 75), His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom made historic haste, disclosing in a White Paper ten documents of the Czechoslovak crisis, hitherto secret. Although these did not quite tell all, for verbal encounters had been of great importance, they provided future historians with prompt and vital data, provided glimpses behind the scenes of the recent crisis...
...hard thing to be ruled by an alien race; and I have been left with the impression that Czechoslovak rule in the Sudeten areas for the last twenty years, although not actually oppressive and certainly not 'terroristic,' has been marked by tactlessness, lack of understanding, petty intolerance and discrimination to the point where the resentment of the German population was inevitably moving to the direction of revolt...
...this year, the Lampoon, Harvard's "humorous" publication has done only one thing of note: to publish the same Freshman issue they've been putting out for years. But now, they are laying possible plans for something that the H. A. A. does not see the humor...