Word: withdrawn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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French public opinion had already held for some time this British morning-after view. Early last week Premier Laval had at last intimated strongly to London that some of Britain's 147 war boats should be withdrawn from the zone of tension, leaving only some 80 fighting craft, the usual British Mediterranean Fleet. This fleet has secured to Britain command of the Mediterranean since the War of the Spanish Succession 230 years ago, according to Mr. Churchill, who is slated to be the next First Lord of the British Admiralty. The French position was that Britain should...
...Mussolini's personal fascination is accompanied by a sense of distance between him and his followers. . . . He is not a 'good fellow.' While he is not sullen, he is withdrawn. He is not a handshaker. Hence the impulse to substitute [for handshaking] the Roman salute. . . .All these gifts have won a crown for Mussolini; guarantee his omnipotence; render it as beneficial as a Dictatorship...
...This modification of the rules is experimental and should it be found detrimental to the interests of the majority of the House Residents or to cause serious congestion in the roadway may be changed or withdrawn at any time." Signed Aldrich Durant Business Manager...
...gets no lasting benefit from these gold receipts, for the capital may be withdrawn as rapidly as it was sent," said National City Bank in its monthly trade & finance review. "In fact, [the gold] is a menace since . . . additions to the gold stock only increase the temptation and the pressure to put it to inflationary uses...
...King George V studied his Admiralty charts he saw an amazing thing. Malta, traditionally Britain's "Key to the Mediterranean." had become last week an inviting naval keyhole. In fear of Italian bombing planes, the big British ships normally based at Malta had withdrawn to Egyptian and Syrian waters, leaving in the keyhole only a British aircraft carrier, its complement of battle planes and a few-light destroyers as the best weapons to be left there...