Word: ways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cannot be refuted by the scribblings of international press liars." "It has . . . been proved that only as an entity is this central European space capable of existence, and whoever breaks up that entity commits a crime against millions of people," declared Herr Hitler. If people did not like the way a "tolerable order of things was established in Central Europe," then Herr Hitler could only answer that it was not the "method but the useful result that counts"-i.e., that the end justifies the means. But "thanks to Mr. Stalin," Germany and Russia had now restored that entity. They were...
That was not the way it struck the British Government. "Vague and obscure" was their description when the full text became "available in London." The British Government agreed to give the proposals "careful examination in consultation with the Dominions and the French Republic," but it was pointed out that "no peace proposals are likely to be found acceptable which do not effectively free Europe from the menace of aggression" and that, since Hitler had double-crossed them before, "something more than words will be required to establish the confidence which must be the essential basis of peace...
...which they agreed to loan to Poland just as the German invasion began, called on French Premier Edouard Daladier, told him he planned to recruit at least 125,000 Poles to fight with the French. "Europe must be made over," declared Premier Sikorski, "in such a way as to restore independence and security to the oppressed nations: Poland and Czecho-Slovakia...
...pays lip homage to my husband and surveys around him the destruction of the Marshal's life work. . . . Poland fought to the last. If it had not been for Russia's stab in the back we could have held the Germans. ... I am proud of the way in which my country behaved in the hours of danger." This week the British Foreign Office is to give a State banquet for August Zaleski, Foreign Minister in the Sikorski Cabinet...
...traders who run this big business saw merely that German submarines and mines in the Baltic blocked the usual Russian autumn shipments of timber to the British Isles. They promptly cabled to Norwegian, Swedish and Danish shipping firms, offering to charter Scandinavian freighters to carry Soviet timber out by way of ice-free Murmansk and the White Sea to Britain (see map). At latest reports the Scandinavians had not yet decided whether to lease their freighters, and anti-Soviet feeling was running especially high in Sweden...