Word: weakeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trembling, the weak faltering...
Peace. Strong on defense, Britain and France seemed weak on surprise. Neither gaunt Mr. Neville Chamberlain, taking his after-breakfast stroll as usual, nor serious M. Daladier, had the talent, training, or freakish love of shock to plan a move of the sort that Hitler had made. As profound gloom settled over the capitals of Europe-in Moscow, belatedly, as well as in Berlin-some great stroke of unprecedented originality, some inspired action unlike any that diplomatic history had known, seemed called for to answer Hitler's. But the imaginations of peace were not productive. Memories of Munich, when...
...religion, an assurance of equal rights . . . and what the British Army would most readily accord a brave and enduring foe-all the honors of war." Responsibilities of Empire he considered great; if nations under the British Crown could be healthy and happy "the cause of the poor and the weak all over the world will have been sustained: everywhere small peoples will have more room to breathe; and everywhere great empires will be encouraged by our example to step forward into the sunshine of a more gentle and a more generous...
...Schwarze Korps' cartoon poking fun at the staff talks in Moscow (see cut). Prepared all summer for this European crisis, the press was not caught napping as it had been in 1914. For six weeks the U. P. had been filling in weak spots in Europe, acting on the assumption that war would start in August or September. The A. P. had four times as many men in Europe as it had at any time during the last war. Last week the A. P. sent a man 350 miles from Rome to the heel of Italy...
...most numerous positions open to Freshmen exclusively are the jobs as waiters in the Freshman Union. These are given to approximately forty deserving students each year who have made application. The waiters receive twen- ty-one meals a weak in exchange for approximately twenty hours, of work a week...