Word: trusts
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Vanishing Faith. The neat notion that Dictator Mussolini could be bought or wooed away from his alliance with Adolf Hitler all but vanished last week, and with it went the last shreds of trust in II Duce's words. Of all Prime Minister Chamberlain's dubious achievements in foreign policy, he was proudest of the Anglo-Italian Treaty "guaranteeing" the status quo of the Mediterranean. In January Dictator Mussolini had personally promised Mr. Chamberlain that he had no intention of changing that status quo. Last week Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano gravely assured British Ambassador Lord Perth...
...fact that his neighbor Benito Mussolini chose Good Friday to invade Albania. On Easter Sunday Pius XII made a radio address to the world: "There can be no peace so long as treaties which have been solemnly sanctioned have lost that security value which constitutes the foundation for reciprocal trust...
...selfreliance, now they come into conflict with things that are beyond them. The story sprouts from this base; as conditions grow worse, the spirit grows stronger. There is no resolution to the problem in the book though with no solution in sight, it ends on a note of trust in their integrity. The author has let actions speak for the morale of the people, with only occasional direct expressions of their philosophy, and this is as it should be. Interspersed are chapters of Steinbeck's own comments which do not particularly heighten the effect. For the Joads and their friends...
Thomas Armstrong, Vice-President of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, and Herman Brock, Vice-President of the Guaranty Trust Company; are additions to Table 1, on Latin-American relations...
...Italian press hastily pointed out that a British pledge was not an unmixed blessing. The German press warned Polish Foreign Minister Josef Beck not to trust British guarantees...