Word: willing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Efficient social workers among the evacuated moppets meanwhile hastily scrambled into rehearsal thousands of Christmas plays. Their strategy: "Once a child gets a part in a play he will refuse to go home for Christmas." From Canada arrived seven tons of Christmas presents for the British evacues. Up in Scotland...
Plenty of old-fashioned British Christmas cards were posted, but World War II set many of the King's subjects to addressing cards which were chiefly or entirely about winning the war, with "Merry Christmas" omitted altogether. Typical was a card on which a beefy British bulldog bestrides the...
Main points: 1) currencies will be permanently stabilized at the going rate of 176½ francs to the pound; 2) thus France can continue to buy commodities in the sterling area with francs at a reasonable rate, Britain can supply her expeditionary force in France with pounds; 3) neither country...
Foreign Commissar Litvinoff's most eloquent, emphatic statement on international morals was made in his maiden speech: We are faced now with the task of preventing war. ... At the same time we must grasp the undoubted truth that . . . not a single more or less important war can be localized...
Why the League finally got its back up could be partially explained by the fact that the expulsion was proposed and engineered primarily by those Latin American, Catholic nations to which everything that the Soviet Union stands for has long been anathema. World-wide sympathy for Finland was important, but...