Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin made unobtrusively perhaps the most important declaration from His Majesty's Government since the rise to power of Adolf Hitler in 1933. A basic tenet of Nazi policy today is that, excluding Soviet Russia, the rest of Europe including Britain must unite in a Western Pact. This regional pact to guarantee peace only on Germany's frontiers in the West, leaving the Fatherland free to wage war in the East, has long been resisted by France with her doctrine of "collective security," and of course by Russia. Dictator Stalin would be glad to sign...
...feeling of security -at any rate in one part-from which that security, if once attained, may spread to other parts of the Continent. Were there a pact-I am not speaking of collective security through the whole of Europe-for mutual assistance against aggression between the nations of Western Europe, I hold and believe that such a pact could maintain peace...
...armament race. That the address are with European democracies in general cannot well be doubted in view of the wording of the speech. Stating that the people of America are "not indifferent to" the plight of those nations who are striving to maintain the "tradition of western civilization", the Ambassador clearly hints at assistance from the United States in a war. Americans and French alike cannot overlook the significance of such a statement. Regardless whether or not the address had received the official stamp of approval, it can only be regarded here as unfortunate...
...teams have reputation all their own as boxers rather than sluggers. At the Intercollegiates last year they became known as the "fancy Harvard boxers," and after Larry Crampton, one of last year's greats, had toppled "Pinkie" Haines of Western Maryland to become the Intercollegiate champion in his class, the loser came out grumbling, "Aw gee, whiz, you guys don't fight...
...trying to analyze why the Western crews with which he has been associated have been the best in the country during the past few years, Bolles does not think it's a matter of weight. "California has had some big crews," he agrees, "but year in and year out Cornell and Syracuse will be the heaviest. I think good crews just run in cycles. We have happened to have some good material out at Washington. Navy had its run, you remember, and so did Cornell. All you have to have is two lean Freshman years and then...