Word: whitings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Also returning from Europe, Lawyer Benjamin Cohen of the White House Janizariat was besieged by newshawks, insisted he had had nothing but vacation. When the newshawks eyed his bulging briefcase he declared its contents: not State papers, but the Cohen pajamas and toothbrush...
...generation. Labor and Liberal opposition leaders joined the crowd of M.P.'s who rushed up to shake Neville Chamberlain's hand and tell him how relieved they and their constituents were that now Britain would not be bombed. But Anthony Eden was seen to walk out, unsmiling, white-lipped...
...international guarantee of the new boundaries of the Czechoslovak State against unprovoked aggression." This was an historic reversal of British policy, for up to now Britain has not been directly pledged to anything on the Continent, except via her League obligations. This pledge binds her in black and white to Czechoslovakia even more definitely than her unwritten entente binds her to France...
Secret documents are always published after a major war, years afterward as a general thing. But just before the peace of last week (see p. 75), His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom made historic haste, disclosing in a White Paper ten documents of the Czechoslovak crisis, hitherto secret. Although these did not quite tell all, for verbal encounters had been of great importance, they provided future historians with prompt and vital data, provided glimpses behind the scenes of the recent crisis...
...PEAPACK-E. B. White- Harper...