Word: disregards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people and Government of Finland have a long honorable and wholly peaceful record which has won for them the respect and warm regard of the people and the Government of the United States." Called his strongest statement denouncing the policy of conquest and his strongest denunciation of "wanton disregard of law," it went beyond his appeals for peace when Hitler invaded Poland...
...proclamation has one objective: to gain Harvard support for the Russian position. After elaborating Russia's reasons for her attack on Finland, the proclamation adds a brief suggestion that Harvard should disregard the "American imperialists" who are "taking the lead in Chamberlain's anti-Soviet schemes." America must not accept the "pro-war hysteria" which aims to turn her against Russia...
...Spunkiness of the small nations clustered around Germany was one of the best clues to Europe's rapidly changing lineup. Defenseless Norway dared to disregard a strong German protest that the internment of the Nazi prize crew that captured the U. S. freighter City of Flint was an unfriendly act. Little Yugoslavia mustered enough independence to send home unsatisfied a Nazi trade delegation that had tried to increase delivery of goods to Germany. Rumania, hardest-pressed of the Balkans, felt secure enough from Nazi wrath to decrease her oil deliveries from 4,100 tons to less than...
Garbo, who plays her first full-length comedy with iron, Bolshevik disregard for glamor, in a khaki uniform and middie blouse, succeeds in the difficult task of making her tight-lipped fanaticism funny without making it ridiculous. Even her change of heart is winning and plausible. But why she should change under the impact of Melvyn Douglas is one of those things even the genius of Karl Marx could not explain...
...restored to the German nation its self-respect and its disciplined orderliness. The tyrannical methods which were employed within Germany itself to obtain this result were detestable, but were Germany's own concern. Many of Herr Hitler's social reforms, in spite of their complete disregard of personal liberty of thought, word or deed, were on highly advanced democratic lines. The 'Strength through Joy' movement, the care for the physical fitness of the nation, and, above all, the organisation of the Labor Camps, an idea which Herr Hitler once told me that he had borrowed from...