Word: willing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Repudiating rumors that King Vittorio Emanuele and Crown Prince Umberto opposed the Axis policy which might have carried Italy into war, the Foreign Minister said that on the contrary His Majesty and His Royal Highness, foreseeing this possibility, had "asked the privilege and honor of serving the country in arms...
Taking members of the British Cabinet to task for saying that Britain and France are fighting to produce a "change of heart" in Germany, Lord Darnley argued that: "A free offer [of peace] would more likely produce a change of heart and the security we require from Germany. The only...
"Boomerangs." The Lords cheered when Baron Snell of Plumstead, a Labor peer, once a stable groom, scathingly denounced "this tribute to Hitler," but Lord Darnley's proposal was warmly seconded by Baron Arnold, who was Under Secretary for Colonies and later Paymaster General in the British Labor Governments of...
Last week police searched the labyrinthine cellars of the Houses of Parliament for spies, even poked through the ventilating system and set a patrol on the roof. At 2 p.m. workmen and staff employes were sent home, and soon afterward certain brawny nobles staged a regular Rugger scrum for the...
Digging into the fat tome, which in English runs to 344 pages, scholars noted that it falls into four sections. The first, comprising more than half the book, rehearses the whole of German-Polish relations, 1919-39, to depict "The Fight Against the Germans in Poland and Against Danzig and...