Word: urgently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wise & Faithful." Sir Eric, as he and the Dictator talked, received an impact so powerful that next day New York Timesman Ferdinand Kuhn Jr. cabled from London: "Last night the most urgent kind of warning reached the British Government from wise, faithful Ambassador Drummond to the effect that Mussolini was convinced Britain intended to make war upon him and therefore had poured new troops into Libya"-i.e. opposite the British position in Egypt...
...come to you with the urgent advice to arouse the nations to the realization of fact and the sense of collective self-preservation, these powerful instincts being the strongest allies for the elimination...
Sanctions, as severe, as necessary, are even more urgent now than they were two weeks ago, and it appears hopeful that in the absence of French cooperation Britain will play her own hand against the rising Caesar. It must be evident to all the world that Laval's suggestion is merely another attempt to dissuade Britain from tuning up at Geneva a motor for which France has no further...
...Professor. "They were demanding immediate payment from us for bunker coal and freezing up on credit." Off the record Italians were said to have noted that, within 24 hours after II Duce refused the concessions regarding Ethiopia offered by Britain last summer (TIME, Aug. 26), British bankers flashed urgent messages to their U. S. affiliates and, when these curtailed credit to Italy, their action was given by British bankers subsequently as a reason why they could not extend credit to Italy. "I have been steadily engaged in adjusting the National economy to [such] existing conditions in the past few months...
...percent of the village population are poorly or badly nourished. . . . The country is in a state of emergency which is rapidly passing to one of crisis. . . . The outlook for the future is gloomy to a degree. . . . If the entire products of the soil are needed to provide for the urgent needs of the cultivators [as at present], nothing will be left for the payment of rent or revenue. . . . The whole social structure of India must inevitably be rudely shaken, if not wholly destroyed...