Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United States. Now it is being ruthlessly destroyed. The effect over here on the large body of Scandinavians in the Northwestern States will not be insignificant. Thus far they have meant a great bloc of isolationist sentiment in Congress, but their enthusiasm to steer clear of the European turmoil may be dimmed by the present tragedy of a nation...
...painfully interested observer of all this headline turmoil was Hester Huntington's ex-husband, father of her three handsome children. From his office at No. 49 Wall Street Ellery Huntington icily avowed: "My family has been here many generations and anything not absolutely 100% American is naturally distasteful...
...line was named after brilliant old Lord Curzon, onetime famed Viceroy of India, in 1919 serving his first year as Britain's Foreign Secretary. He recommended it to the Versailles Peace Conference. In the turmoil into which Eastern Europe was soon to be plunged, however, the Curzon line raveled. Poland invaded the Ukraine and occupied Kiev. After defeating their other foes the Bolsheviks finally counterattacked, pushed the Poles back almost to Warsaw. Polish emissaries at London screamed for help, but Prime Minister David Lloyd George, never before or since too fond of the Poles, reminded them that they were...
...Eduard Benes, who yielded the Sudetenland to Germany without a fight (TIME, Oct. 17, 1938), busied himself in Paris trying to get established a legal, provisional CzechoSlovak Government, told the Anglo-U. S. Press Club : "I believe that out of the turmoil of Europe will come a better society . . . a new moral and political renaissance, which naturally will take a very long time . . . will result in the restoration of Czecho-Slovakia." Last week, Dr. Benes broadcast from London, hoping to be heard by Czechs and Slovaks: "Today the retreat from the tyranny of Naziism is ended! Your place, (Czechoslovak citizen...
Despite the European turmoil 14 refugees from Naziland have arrived in Cambridge to study with the aid of the refugee scholarship fund established last year, according to a statement made last night by Charles Ennis '40, Chairman of the Refugee Committee...