Word: offering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Archduke Robert, 24, second son of the late Austrian Kaiser Karl, was sent from Belgium to Paris by his brother Archduke Otto, 26, the Habsburg Pretender, with an offer to recruit a full division of Austrian refugees and send them to fight on the Western Front if Britain and France will announce as one of their war aims "restoration of Austria as an inde pendent State." Already in France with a similar proposal was Austria's onetime Heimwehr troop leader and Vice Chancellor, Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, onetime friend of Adolf Hitler, who recently ordered confiscated...
...objective reports of the last days of besieged Warsaw agree that the Germans refused point-blank to allow the garrison to evacuate non-combatants from the city. Herr Hitler's variorum: "Sheer sympathy for women and children caused me to make an offer to those in command of Warsaw at least to let civilian inhabitants leave the city. . . . The proud Polish commander of the city did not even condescend to reply...
Herr Hitler made a clear offer, said the official German news agency of Adolf Hitler's Reichstag speech (see above), and he expects a clear answer...
...Reichstag deputy would have dared last week to offer the faintest criticism of Herr Hitler's speech. No delegate of the Supreme Soviet, had it been in session. would have risked his life by indicating that perhaps Joseph Stalin was going too fast in his diplomatic conquests. But last week in the House of Commons, "Mother of Parliaments," David Lloyd George, World War Prime Minister, not only counseled the Government but criticized...
...Harlow might be considering a change of coaching scenery were quietly spiked yesterday by the genial Crimson grid mentor, who let it be known that any such tales were totally without foundation. A story in a New York daily stated yesterday that Harlow was seriously thinking of accepting an offer of the posts of athletic director and football coach from the University of Maryland...