Word: afar
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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France is gathering all her energies to withstand the new blows. When are they coming? How? Where? A short time will tell you. Once more we may be stabbed in the back by another man who has refused to listen to all voices from afar, who has refused all generous offers. He is ready to plunge his own people into disaster. He may deliberately increase the world's burden of horrors. But he fails to understand the moral temperature of France and England. During the last three weeks they have bent, but are not broken. To be sure of this...
Scenes. North through this half-frozen Europe moved Sumner Welles and his staff of assistants. To U. S. watchers from afar, uncertain as to the object of his mission (although President Roosevelt had said that it was only to gather information), in doubt as to whom he could see, what he would hear, skeptical of what he could accomplish, the journey of Sumner Welles was less a continued story of diplomatic progress than a series of vivid scenes, puzzling as stills from a movie whose story is not known...
Miss Keith claims that she cau "spot" a Harvard man from afar, because he is clean-cut and appears to have much practical intelligence. "Harvardiaus know a good thing when they see it, and I do try to let them...