Word: yet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what of Hitler's record as a conferee? Until last week he never used the word conference in other than an abusive sense. He has yet to answer Franklin D. Roosevelt's April invitation to a world peace-&-security conference. His diplomatic dealings have been consistently bilateral, even in the Axis. Italy did not sit in on the Russian Pact. Furthermore, conferring is clearly not Adolf Hitler's dish. He cannot listen...
Aimless War? To many & many a neutral, far from having any established peace aims, the Allies do not yet seem to have propounded very satisfactory war aims. King George VI said they were fighting lest "justice and liberty among nations ... be ended," an ideology echoed by Premier Daladier. The British Government is legally at war simply because it had an assistance treaty with violated Poland...
...autumn shipments of timber to the British Isles. They promptly cabled to Norwegian, Swedish and Danish shipping firms, offering to charter Scandinavian freighters to carry Soviet timber out by way of ice-free Murmansk and the White Sea to Britain (see map). At latest reports the Scandinavians had not yet decided whether to lease their freighters, and anti-Soviet feeling was running especially high in Sweden...
...Soviet-Estonian Treaty be exchanged without fail in six days, a trick J. Stalin learned from A. Hitler when demanding a quick handover from little States like Austria and Czecho-Slovakia. Only an hour now remained before this time limit expired and the necessary papers had not yet arrived from Moscow. To nervous Estonians this seemed ominous. Already two Soviet military missions had arrived in Tallinn on trains heavily guarded by soldiers, and were living at the railway station...
...Meyer," queried one reporter, "you have never been in our country before, yet you handle the language astonishingly. Where did you pick...