Word: returns
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...gaunt, Machiavellian man was arrested at the Rumanian frontier. He was onetime Polish Foreign Minister Colonel Josef Beck, who had counted Hermann Göring among his hunting friends, escaped Göring's airmen by fleeing to Rumania in September 1939. Several Gestapo attempts to return him to Germany were foiled by Rumanian police. Last week, according to D.N.B., Beck was arrested by Iron Guard and Gestapo agents as he tried to escape "disguised as an Englishman." In his pocket was a British diplomatic passport...
...Jawn'll Naylor to the wall," the Sage of the Age boasted in return. "Morris at stake today, and if Fegan raise his Stanard from last week, he'll Sandbach...
Most obvious of all is the inadequate provision made for conscript voting. The trainee may vote by absentee ballot if his state allows or he may obtain a one day leave. This is hardly sufficient for most men to reach their homes and return, and it would also involve a great expense. Furthermore, future registration will certainly be curtailed by these rules. In this time when every decision taken will have so profound an effect on our future, an untold number of men are deprived of one of their most sacred liberties and duties because they are "learning to preserve...
...week progressed the Franco-Thaï quarrel grew into an ironic kettle-storm which somehow summed up all the topsy-turvy diplomatic scrambles of 1940. The same France which could once send a stern note to an Eastern potentate and get presents, favors, concessions in return, meekly begged ratification of a non-aggression pact of a country whose name sounded and politics looked something like Toyland. Thailand ignored the request. Its Government at Bangkok grew insistent on the subject of its claims against Indo-China. It looked as if mighty France might have to give in to the aggression...
Maritain is pessimistic about patching up this mischief, sees no hope except in "a new temporal order inspired by Christianity." Man's basic need, he says, is a return to the "integral humanism" of Aquinas, a new philosophy of the person. Maritain's new society would be democratic, but would frighten good bourgeois citizens...