Word: rifted
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There had been a slight rift when Benito Mussolini drew France, Britain and Germany into his Four-Power Pact (TIME, May 29, 1933, et seq.). This came to nothing but Poland, piqued at not having been invited into Il Duce's prospective club and suspicious of France for joining without her, smoldered with resentment. Warsaw was thus in receptive mood when Berlin proposed Adolf Hitler's most statesmanly idea thus far, namely, that the Polish Corridor question should be put officially on ice for ten years by a non-aggression pact between the two countries. This was duly...
...fierce nationalists, they championed Adolf Hitler from the start. When his Munich beer hall Putsch fizzled in 1923 and Leader Hitler was clapped into a fortress, loyal "Nazi cells" in seven German universities were among the few brownshirt organizations to carry on. Last week came the first open rift between Korpstudenten and a Chancellor who, as one of his first acts, legalized their gory duels...
...tons, costing some $25,000 most of which has been handed down from Enterprise. Her 165-ft. duralumin mast was made by the Glenn L. Martin airplane plant in Baltimore, shipped North in sections. When he selected her name, Skipper Vanderbilt sentimentalized thus: "Rainbow is an omen significant of rift, and parting of the clouds, indicating fair sailing and better times ahead...
...country, it is imperative that Congress agree with the President. The country will watch this new bill to see whether it will be added to the emergency powers of Roosevelt as is necessary if the United States is to keep itself economically independent, or whether it will cause a rift which would destroy the benefits of the great work already accomplished...
...Only rift in the Conference proceedings came when Cuban Chief Delegate Angel Giraudy interrupted a debate to say: "I declare with deliberation that the United States is intervening in Cuba, strongly intervening! No United States Marines have landed, but the United States has been engaged in intrigue against our president and his Government through Ambassador Sumner Welles [see p. 15]. If that is not intervention, what...