Word: ways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unnecessary provided the Axis gets its way, and there will be no war if the "knots" in European politics can be untied. He did not name the knots, but his listeners did, shouting "Nice!" "Savoy!" "Corsica...
After the British Cabinet last July had secretly decided to offer Czecho-Slovakia on the altar of Appeasement, Viscount Runciman was sent to Prague as an "unofficial mediator" to arrange a "peaceful settlement" to the Sudeten German problem. Lord Runciman was eminently successful. Last week, on his way home from a world-circling vacation trip, he arrived in Montreal, Quebec, was questioned by newshawks on his availability as a mediator in the current Danzig dispute. Cracked light-hearted Lord Runciman: "You wouldn't want me to do that all over again...
...Warsaw from a much publicized diplomatic swing to Ankara, Sofia and Bucharest went Vladimir Potemkin, the U.S.S.R.'s Vice Commissar for Foreign Affairs. Retired Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff and Colonel Beck always rubbed each other the wrong way. Colonel Beck had not talked diplomatic matters over with a Russian since 1934. But Comrade Potemkin was different...
...before expropriation. Last month Senor Foianini arranged two important treaties that made their extensive exploitation possible. Argentina agreed to permit transportation of Bolivian oil across her territory provided the expropriated fields were not returned to private owners. Paraguay agreed to give Bolivia: 1) a 325-ft. pipeline right-of-way across the Chaco battlefields to the Paraguay River; 2) two free zones for a refinery and a shipping point; 3) a 3O-year monopoly to supply Paraguayan oil requirements; 4) freedom from taxes and levies on shipments from the Bolivian refinery. Since Paraguay uses little oil, main purpose...
...Italians will not leave at least until after the big victory parade in Madrid, many times postponed, now tentatively scheduled for May 19. The Condor Legion is expected shortly to return home by way of Vigo. But neither's going means the end of either German or Italian participation in Spanish affairs, and the fact that the Germans are leaving first does not indicate that they are abandoning Spain to their Italian partners...