Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Greatest enigma of Europe this week is precisely the question: Who will leave whom in the lurch? In the chancelleries of Europe and especially in Paris it was beginning to be said: "More and more the war seems unlikely to be fought on the Western Front, and sooner or later...
Anti-Soviet demonstrations occurred in many South American capitals last week and the press was unanimous in echoing famed La Prensa of Buenos Aires, which viewed with alarm the recognition by Russia of a Red stooge Government in Finland. This "proves to the world the danger of Soviet methods," said La Prensa, "since it appears its policy is to utilize emissaries in all countries who remain hidden until an opportune moment...
...Oslo last week the Nobel Peace Prize Committee of the Norwegian Parliament announced that it will make no 1939 award, recalled that during World War I the award was given only once, in 1917 to the International Committee of the Red Cross...
...mood of the British people is one of patient determination to win the war. Underlying it are many other contributing moods held by varying classes and factions. The free people of the United Kingdom last week found significant spokesmen to express three of their varying moods as World War II entered its fourth month...
...mood of idealistic British Laborites has been one of political funk ever since their beloved League of Nations collapsed, the Nazi menace reared its head, and they could think of nothing more popular to do than support the Conservative Government's program of swiftly rearming Britain. Last week Labor Party Leader Clement Attlee favored the House of Commons with one of his most turgid effusions of Marxist dialectic, argued that Britain ought to "begin now to plan" to adopt Socialist nationalizations of the means of production as an aid to winning the war, provoked the quip, "If that speech...