Word: underlying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Metropolitan homes were emptied of their children. On the whole, when mothers accompanied children to live with strange families in the countryside, the arrangement was carried out with good-natured tolerance by both families. Hut not always. In the excitement and instability of change, the visiting children broke things, fought...
WATS. The female uniform most often seen tramping about the British countryside is the khaki of the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service (tunic, skirt, a cap that has upfolded ear-protecting flaps). Formed in 1938, the WATS are a revival of War I's Women's Army...
No War I veteran but an outstanding post-War civic leader (as member of the Overseas Settlement Board, Imperial Relations Trust, Broadcasting Commission), Lady Reading was last year picked by Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare to amalgamate 70 women's groups into one workable body, now numbering half-a...
Italy's position astride the European fence was growing increasingly uncomfortable last week. The story came out that Benito Mussolini, still under pressure from Great Britain and France to come down off the fence and fight in one lot or the other, was making overtures to Britain by sending...
Both the Chinese and the Japanese last week used the name of Puppet-elect Wang Ching-wei as "reason" for the renewed offensive. Chinese officials warned their own people, and Japanese officials admitted, that the new pressure was intended to intimidate, discourage, force the populace of South China into endorsement...