Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...head cold which confined President Roosevelt to his living quarters most of last week had a silver lining. It saved him from discussing the European situation, passing hourly from tension to tension. At one press conference he discussed instead the high price of carrots and celery with Correspondent May Craig of Maine. From another press conference he absented himself, letting Secretary Steve Early do the honors. At week's end he showed himself at the President's Cup speed boat regatta on the Potomac but paid small attention to the races. Europe was on his mind. Returning from...
These circumstances were somewhat misleading. With Prime Minister Chamberlain dramatically seeking peace from Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden (see p. 75), tension was less that evening than it had been for several days. Mr. Hull met the President's train mostly as a favor to the press. Otherwise reporters would have had to wait through a wet evening before filing accounts of the President's conference with his top diplomat. Similarly, the President's press conference was really canceled because he needed time to read reports. And Secretary Woodring had gone to the station for no reason more...
Turning their backs squarely on these states, whose envoys in London knew even less than reporters about what was going on, the two chiefs, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Premier Edouard Daladier, proceeded to capitulate and cooperate in efforts to redraw the map of Central Europe so that tension would be ended, Peace bulwarked. Chancellor Adolf Hitler was the chief who last week forced this decision by crude, primitive demands and threats made to Neville Chamberlain behind the soundproof walls of the Führer's study at Berchtesgaden. Premier Benito Mussolini was the unashamed and blatant chief...
...Local disputes are carried up, through district committees, to a national joint board of the industry. "The objective is to settle locally as many disputes as possible, and if they cannot be so settled, to make the procedure short enough to satisfy the workers . . . long enough to allay the tension." Unauthorized local strikes are frowned on by union higher-ups and are rare...
This "proposed resolution," adopted unanimously by the 27 nations of the London Non-intervention Committee after 24 months of quarreling and petty dickering, was in effect a plan to ease international tension by getting foreign soldiers out of Spain. Before the elaborately painstaking plan could be carried out, Spain's Rightists and Leftists had of course to accept. To tempt them into agreement, concessions were tentatively offered to both factions. Held out to Rightist Spain was the plum of belligerent rights which would legalize a blockade of Leftist Spain's ports. For Leftist Spain was a tempting offer...