Word: ways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speaking people who, by the Treaty of St. Germain signed in 1919, were transferred from Austrian to Italian sovereignty. Last week the Fascists and the Nazis, having long soft-pedaled this delicate situation, decided to solve it for once and for all. The method they chose was the hard way-a transfer of the population, not the territory, back to Greater Germany...
...most dashing figure on the diplomatic stage and the fair-haired boy of Fascism as well. Then, in a surprise Cabinet shakeup, Dictator Benito Mussolini took away spade-bearded Dino Grandi's portfolio and made himself Foreign Minister. Some thought that Il Duce was miffed at the way Signer Grandi had conducted Italy's side of the negotiations at the Reparations Conference at Lausanne, but a more widely accepted theory was that he had violated Mussolini Commandment...
...reception she received opened Signorina Mussolini's eyes to herself. A plainly dressed, not very pretty young girl, she was nevertheless feted everywhere she went. In Travancore, she motored 200 miles through the jungle, escorted part way by elephantcade. She was entertained by the Maharaja of Gwalior, received at New Delhi by Lord Irwin, the Viceroy of India (now British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax). One Prince gave her two live tigers for her father. Her cabin on the return voyage was loaded with rare laces, a miniature temple carved in ivory, rugs, tapestries, gold & silver trinkets...
...Rumania, Hungary and former Czecho-Slovakia. At night the vessels edge closer to the shore, watching for the signal lights that mean all is clear for the landing of their cargoes. Since April 1938 more than 15,000 Jewish refugees are estimated to have illegally entered Palestine in this way...
...British have found no way to stop the smuggling. Even if a boatload of refugees is captured, the authorities are helpless, for all identification papers have been destroyed and there is no country to which they can be deported. Moreover, Secretary MacDonald's retaliatory prohibition of legal immigration may even increase the smuggling of refugees by convincing even moderate Jews that it is morally justifiable...