Word: toward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris, where French Premier Edouard Daladier is expected to warn Mr. Chamberlain not to start appeasing Dictator Benito Mussolini with French territory. Mr. Chamberlain's dilemma at Rome will be that he cannot get concessions from Italy (such as less co-operation with Germany, no more menacing gestures toward France) without giving away something, and he cannot give away much without arousing opposition at home...
...Carpatho-Ukrainian border last week, however, was no mere guerrilla scrap but several minor military actions and one small, desperate, pitched battle. The suspicion was that these were instigated by Germany and, besides being a warning to Hungary to lay off, were possibly the Nazis' first violent move toward setting up the nucleus of the Greater Ukrainian State...
Meanwhile, Polish Foreign Minister Josef Beck made an official call on Führer Hitler at his Bavarian retreat. Timidly Diplomat Beck, who has his hands full trying to balance Poland on a tightrope between Nazi and French democratic influence, inquired into Germany's intentions toward his country...
From textbook publishers' presses today pours a flood of books designed to teach democracy. Many of these books are less benign toward modern dictatorships than pre-War texts were toward the old European monarchies. Some denounce dictators. But most contemporary history books balance their moral indignation, state the dictatorships' case and let pupils judge for themselves. Sample excerpts...
Freshmen will find it harder than ever before to avoid taking English A, according to an announcement from University Hall which yesterday revealed that, starting with the class of 1943, the number of exemptions will be materially reduced, and that the traditional Yardling composition course will be counted toward a degree...