Word: trapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time last night with its gently stirring, inhibition crushing breezes; and its horn blowing auto parades and other clap-trap of small town pre electioneering...
...League Trap? Squire Baldwin's diplomats at the Foreign Office and on Britain's delegation at Geneva repeated daily last week that His Majesty's Government were not acting "against" Italy but "for" the League covenant. They firmly deprecated all suggestions that Britain was bent on curbing Italy to protect her own imperial interests in Africa. "No selfish or imperialist motives enter into our minds," they all said, recalling the similar declaration at Geneva of new British Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel John Gurney Hoare (TIME. Sept...
Perhaps too late last week Britain's more experienced Labor politicians realized the trap into which their Party was being led by the anti-Fascist zeal of the Trades Union Congress's proletarian Socialists. Believing that not "force" but consistent Pacifism must always and ultimately be the guiding principle of British Labor, Lord Ponsonby, the Labor Party's leader in the House of Lords, resigned last week. Its leader in the Commons, "Old George" Lansbury, again threatened to resign. The Young Labor rival Herbert Morrison, who is most anxious to succeed him, announced that he smelt a Geneva...
...exploded with an article in Liberty, called Will the Communists Get Our Girls in College? and signed J. G. Shaw. This put forth the idea that the Student League for Industrial Democracy (SLID) is a disguised Communist trap for college students and that the male members occasionally seduce the female recruits. Wrote J. G. Shaw, ''You can't afford to laugh at them-as I did ... and a thousand other fathers who see their daughters put on the road to Hell-too late." Liberty added that the time required to read this article was 13 minutes, five...
...they got in touch with Scotland Yard. Coached by detectives, a French diamond merchant carried on intricate negotiations with the thieves, bargained and made conditions of sales like a diplomat at a peace conference. "Cammi" Grizzard distrusted the merchant, the merchant distrusted the police, and, as "Cammi" evaded one trap after another, the police began to distrust their own agents. After "Cammi" Grizzard spotted four Scotland Yard men at a place where the jewels were to be transferred, he set his spies to shadowing the detectives. Scotland Yard set more detectives to shadow "Cammi's" spies, until long processions...