Word: dependable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just before the Anschluss, General Brauchitsch is supposed to have told Adolf Hitler: "Mein Führer, if you want to use the Army to support a bluff by military pressure, you can depend on us. For more serious business, we are not yet ready." A few days later he had taken over command of the Austrian Army. In September 1938, he said the same thing in almost the same words-and marched into the Sudetenland at the head of the German troops. He occupied Bohemia and Moravia last spring, but still the Army was not ready. Last month...
Impartial observers were compelled to conclude this week that Britain and France, and also Germany, were withholding their main air-power for definite reasons. Allied reasons apparently were: 1) to wait for the U. S. to clarify its neutrality stand, on which Allied plane replacements depend heavily; 2) reluctance to invite German "atrocities"; 3) delay until objectives on the Western Front were truly defined and prepared; 4) delay in the hope that the German people could be disaffected from A. Hitler by the War of Pamphlets...
Affable Negro John Henry Lewis, ex-light-heavyweight U. S. boxing champion, who once hoped to earn enough money fighting to become a preacher without having to depend on a preacher's salary, took a job as liquor salesman...
...Japan, foreign news services frequently depend on native translating bureaus for their news from Japanese papers. Last week the United Press got this translation of an editorial in a Tokyo paper...
Last week Secretary MacDonald again outraged the Zionists. Because of thousands of illegal immigrants, for a six-month period beginning next October no Jews will be permitted officially to enter Palestine. After that, resumption of immigration will "depend upon the circumstances prevailing"-i.e., upon whether the illegal immigration meanwhile stops...