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Word: throughness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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To most good Germans it was something of a shock. Had not they been told for six years that Russia was their bitterest enemy? But that didn't mean the Pact wasn't a wonderful thing. Did it not plainly mean peace? Now they would get from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: In the Stomach | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

When Edouard Daladier learned (through the press) that Russia would give Hitler a free hand in Poland, he indulged in no public breast-beating or recriminations. Action was his answer. After conferring in his capacity as Minister of National Defense with British War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha, he summoned Foreign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Acts Before Words | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

>Every evening Britain recalled Sir Edward Grey's epic lament about the lamps going out all over Europe, never again to be relit in his time. The late August moon rode alone over a darkened city whose street intersections were marked only by thin crosses cut in the black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: War Is Very Near | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Australia answered through Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies, "If Britain is forced to war, she will not go alone. Australia stands where she stood 25 years ago. . . ."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Empire | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Canada spoke through Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, who let it be known that when Britain is at war, so is Canada.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Empire | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

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