Word: whether
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...China fleet and came home in August to get from Franklin Roosevelt a Distinguished Service Medal for keeping the Japanese in line so far as U. S. nationals were concerned, he kept the fireball rolling. "If the Japanese plans succeed," the Admiral warned, "I doubt very much whether there will be any business for Americans in China." The Ambassador's slap, which was no less stinging for being deft, not only reminded the Japanese that they had been slapped before, but made them realize as never before that the U. S. State Department and people had by no means...
...Lithuania, and is now trying on Finland. Red Russia, once she got a whip hand over the Finns, would be strategically placed to threaten Scandinavia, unless Germany exerted a counterthrust, and in Stockholm last week the talk was gloomy. Current were such wry cracks as, "We shall soon know whether we Swedes are Germans or Russians...
...invited" all three Scandinavian States to sign bilateral non-aggression pacts with the Reich. Norway and Sweden promptly refused, saying this would infringe their "strictly neutral" status, but Neighbor Denmark felt obliged to sign, and this marked the first minor break in the Neutral Front of the Nordic Bloc. Whether or not the Führer can use it as an opening wedge, Scandinavia was becoming war-jittery, Stockholm citizens were building air-raid shelters, and Norway, Sweden and Denmark were reported on the point of placing orders in the U. S. for war planes...
...influential Swedish officers taken prisoner during Napoleon's campaigns in the North. In 1810 the weakness of Sweden, together with the sudden death of the Swedish Crown Prince, emboldened a Stockholm Court clique to propose that one of Napoleon's marshals be sounded out as to whether he would accept election as heir to the Swedish throne...
...cause of acute alarm to the British Government. A rumor reached London that Russia had shipped 17½ tons of gold to Germany. At first the British Foreign Office was highly skeptical of the rumor, but later, when Sir Alfred Knox asked in the House of Commons whether the Government was aware of the report, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Richard Austen Butler replied: "Yes, sir, and my noble friend [Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax] has reason to believe that this report is not without foundation." If the Soviet Union was going to give Germany the wherewithal to buy raw materials...