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European statesmen have long feared that one of Spain's warring governments, finding itself in a desperate situation, would try to avert defeat by starting a general European war. Last week the harried Spanish Leftist Government, cut off from munitions supplies through France, its ports partly blockaded by ships and air bombers, delivered to the British and French Governments a threat which, if carried out, might easily produce another European Sarajevo...
...implied obligation that the U. S. must keep Latin Americans from doing anything that might be considered provocative by Europeans. Thus if Honduras should order every Lithuanian within its borders decapitated, Lithuania would expect, while keeping the Lithuanian Navy at home, that the U. S. Navy & Marines would avert this outrage...
...permanent reflection on human nature. The Woman with a Past who had darkened the drawing room of Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan and Pinero's The Second Mrs. Tanqueray was no such baleful figure for Maugham. If Lady Kitty has a mission, it is to avert tragedy, not foment it. But knowing human beings, Maugham cynically foils her, shows how the sins of the mothers, far from being visited upon succeeding generations, become their copybook maxims. And knowing the theatre as well, Maugham makes his demonstration witty and compact-a lesson for playwrights...
...Federal Treasury, whereas under the Hitler system there was for every German .013 oz. of gold in the German Treasury. The management of Austrian finance under the League of Nations for years after the War, the economic crumbs which the Allies gave to Austria because they wished to avert her collapse, and in the last few years the economic favors Italy showered upon Austria-before Mussolini finally threw Schuschnigg overboard and teamed up with Hitler-all these factors have made Austria not only economically far better off than Germany but in reasonably "sound" condition from an orthodox economic viewpoint...
...same as private boycotts) were the surest road to war, the Socialists, Trotskyites, Lovestonites and peace-at-any-price pacifists rallied behind the Oxford oath. To the support of "collective security" sprang the Communists and Roosevelt liberals, who declared only "positive action" by the U. S. could avert war. But all could agree on a personal boycott of Japan, and in the midst of the wrangle the delegates interrupted their recriminations, marched out on the snow-covered campus, lit matches to a pile of boxes. One girl kicked off her shoes, stripped the silk stockings off her legs and, standing...