Word: unsealed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dissenting vote a resolution asking a curb on Italian aid for Generalissimo Franco. The French General Staff has long viewed with misgivings the establishment of a Fascist power on France's southern frontier. There were signs that to "neutralize' Italian aid to Franco the French might unseal the Spanish frontier and allow military equipment to pour into Catalonia, as it poured in during the last big Franco offensive last March. Such an action would, of course, anger Dictator Mussolini (see p. 18), would be just the ingredient needed to produce a first-class European crisis...
After thrice protesting that his lips are sealed, Mr. Baldwin suddenly changes his mind and rushes into the House of Commons, tripping over the extended feet of Mr. Eden, to unseal his lips in a tacit admission that the King does not demand that Mrs. Simpson be his Queen but only insists upon contracting a morganatic marriage and giving her one of his lesser titles such as Countess of Chester. "The only possible way," Mr. Baldwin tells the House of Commons, "would be by legislation dealing with a particular case. His Majesty's Government are NOT prepared to introduce...
...grimy British Museum in London last week assembled a small group of excited British savants. It was a momentous occasion, they felt: they were to unseal the first of a great collection of historical gramophone cylinders, recorded years ago for the benefit of posterity. They were to hear first the voice of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate of England, on the 50th anniversary of its recording, in a reading of his own works...