Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain thought Lord Halifax's speech "remarkable" and in two of his own speeches, one before the House of Commons and the other at Birmingham, amplified the Foreign Secretary's sentiments by quoting his own speech of May 19. "We would not refuse to discuss any method by which reasonable aspirations on the part of other nations could be satisfied, even if this meant some adjustment of the existing state of things," said Mr. Chamberlain. Day later he repeated his offer: "We are ready to discuss around the table claims of Germany or any other...
...observers of practical Diplomat Strang's busy career (companion of Captain Anthony Eden on his 1935 swing through Berlin, Warsaw, Moscow, Prague; translator for Hitler and Chamberlain at Berchtesgaden, Godesberg, Munich; British charge d'affaires in Moscow during the difficult spy trial of the Metropolitan-Vickers engineers) thought he had a better chance than bigwigs to find the elusive formula, clinch an Anglo-Soviet agreement. The fact that he is no great friend of Russia was also counted upon by the British - who have found themselves on the selling side of the deal - to give the Russians...
Belgium suffered at 95°, and only Congo officials home on leave thought the temperature bearable. Lack of rain hurt the Belgian fruit crop. Karlstad, Swedish manufacturing town, had the hottest weather for Scandinavia (86°), and Stockholm consumed 183,400 cubic meters (48,417,600 gallons) of water in one day. Drought meant bad crops and forest fires for Sweden. Copenhagen reported three deaths from sunstroke...
...General Jose Miaja and a whole host of lesser fry were in Mexico arranging for transfers of refugees. Communist Deputy Dolores Ibarruri ("La Pasionaria") and Colonel Juan Modesto were in the Soviet Union. Famed Colonel Enrique Lister, onetime stonemason, leader of Madrid's famed Communist Fifth Regiment, was thought to be in hiding in France; openly there were President Manuel Azana, onetime Premier Jose Giral, General Vicente Rojo, onetime Premier Francisco Largo Caballero, Catalonian President Luis Companys, Basque President Jose Antonio de Aguirre...
...more emphasis on teaching of art history as one of the humanities and less overconcentration in the field. But the report also maintained that "The student is overwhelmed by a mass of detailed information," and took the Department's teaching standards to task for stressing memory rather than original thought...