Word: friendship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Herr Hitler of German-Yugoslav friendship: ". . . Through historic events we have become neighbors with common borders established for all time...
...York World's Fair. In their centre, a torch in his hand and a pile of wood at his feet, stood Tracy Strong, general secretary of the World's Alliance of the Y. M. C. A. Cried he: "I now light this International Fire of Friendship." Mr. Strong touched his torch to the wood. As the fire sprang up, Y. M. C. A. boys from Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia, South America threw faggots on the Fire of Friendship...
...There he met, through William Boyce Thompson, Colonel Raymond Robin, head of the American Red Cross mission. In those troubled times Mr. Thompson could get no meat for his wolfhound. Gumberg got it., He became confidential agent for the Red Cross. Through the Red Cross he formed his enduring friendship with Judge Thacher and the late great Morgan Partner Dwight Morrow...
...promise of a Jewish national home in Palestine, then as now preponderantly populated by Arabs.* But as of last week it was more expedient to welsh on the Jews, who are on the run in many parts of the world, than to welsh on the Arabs. Arab friendship in a Mediterranean war of the sort Signor Mussolini has been bellowing about would be of great value to Britain. Nevertheless, there were still plenty of members of Parliament who rose to decry the Palestine plan. Elder Statesman David Lloyd George, head of the War Cabinet that made the Jewish Homeland pledge...
Pedagogue Daladier was one of the most silent members of the talkative Chamber of Deputies. He did condemn the French occupation of the German Ruhr in 1921-24. He did advocate friendship with the post-War Weimar Republic. He favored, however vaguely, an economic reorganization of Europe. Once he said: "France is now in the hands of a financial oligarchy, from whom power must be wrested and given back to the people...