Word: threats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britain and France, however, have specifically guaranteed to help Poland to defend herself against any action which Poland considers a threat to her independence. Last week the Polish Government, having learned much from the Czecho-Slovakian lesson, let it be known that it would consider a seizure of Danzig a threat to Polish independence, that the Third Reich could not have Danzig without fighting for it. While reports from London and Paris said that the British and French Governments would advise the Poles to "negotiate," the Poles were determined not to accept mediation on the Czech pattern...
Although Bill Shallow is a safe bet in the hammer, Indians Jim parks and Jack Stewart are favored in the discus and javelin, with Doc Wharton a serious threat in the latter...
...offered his Union of democracies as the logical challenge to this threat, showing that 15 Atlantic democracies, excluding South-American nations, can control both hemispheres by creating a stronger bond of administration and sentiment between these countries which are already similar economically and ideologically. "And for the government of this Union, why not use the one constitution in modern history which has really worked--the American one?" he asked...
...Yale varsity eight is another crew which is more potential than in the running. Made up without any seniors, there are a great many wrinkles in the crew that will take time to removes. Stroked by last year's freshman stroke, John Blair, the crew is more of a threat for next year than this...
...recent months the Irish Republican Army has terrorized England with many a bombing. Last week the Roman Catholic hierarchy of England and Wales unlimbered its biggest gun against the I.R. A.-threat of excommunication. In a statement read in all Catholic churches in Britain, the hierarchy declared: "Among the causes of the present unrest are workings of certain secret societies. The church sternly condemns all societies which plot against the church or state. They are guilty of crime against human society. Members of such secret societies incur excommunication...