... disquieting, and hardly more stable than in the summer of fateful 1914. What would be the result, of another outbreak;. a second ■ world war? Perhaps they pictured a clash of arms on an even more scientific scale. Slaughter more effeotive and more wholesale ...

... Secretary, to a crowd of over 10,000 at an open-air meeting at Leeds on Saturday. With the German invasion of Russia, the second world war had entered upon a wider phase, said Mr Eden. Hitler had all the advantages of initial surprise; the aggressor -*« m ...

... found in China, in Spain, in Abyssinia .and among the poor and backward children of their own countries. Then came the second world war, and again childhood was threatened —more than at any other time. So these two sister organisations began a new effort—to ...

... NOT FORGOTTEN This week we have marked the third anniversary during the second world war of the Armistice which ended the agony of the years 1914-18. Though present circumstances have compelled a modification of the'outward acts of reverent remembrance ...

... fear, hunger, and frustrated hopes. “No nation can hope to live alone —we have been taught that by the tragedy of this second World War. We must either build an orderly, law-abiding irfternational society, in which each nation can live and work freely without ...

... the end of the war, of 16,693 ships which had sailed in ocean convoy, 16,359 arrived safely. On the outbreak of the Second World War the convoy system began again where it had left off in 1918, and as the months went by plans were made to defeat the ...

... Feuchtwanger—Devil in France, 940.534408; Simon —Ong enemy only the invader, 940.534408; Wheeler—People’s history of the second world war: January-December, 940.54; Wheeler —lnfantry officer, 940.541; Rodger —Red moon rising, 940.541; Romulo —I saw the fall ...

... they were at the time to some observers. What the Russians did in 1939 after Hitler had fired the opening shots of the second World War was to carry out a unilateral alteration of the Treaty of Riga which was imposed upon them 1921 by Marshal Pilsudski ...

... After church in the evenings they like to dance to fiddles, simple-folk dances which are very pleasant to watch. The second World War can have brought these people no less suffering than the last. The nearness of the liberating Russian armies must send ...

... part in the war of “deration. If ever complete statistics can be published, it will be seen that civiliandeaths In the second World war have been as great those 0 f the armed forces, even when fun accoun has been taken or tne enormous Russian and Nazi losses ...

... the defeat of the Germans, but he lived long enough to know .that no uncertainty remains about the final outcome of the second World War. The tributes paid last week inside and outside Parliament to this unique personality have been eloquent of the place ...

... see something saved from the wreckage. If the first reactions to the news of the surrender was profound relief that the second World War job, half - finished in the West, had been completed more speedily than we dared to expect and the cost in lives was ...