Faulkner's total works today, and in fact those of his works which existed in 1946 when Mr. Cowley made his comment, or in 1939, when Mr. O'Donnell wrote his essay, reveal no such simple attitude toward the South.

Weil was in Finland when World War II broke out ; he had been traveling in Scandinavia since April 1939.

Nin left Paris in the late summer of 1939, when residents from overseas were urged to leave France due to the upcoming war and returned to New York City with Guiler ( who was, on his own wish, all but edited out of her diaries published in her lifetime and whose role in her life is therefore difficult to gauge ).

Relations further deteriorated when, in January 1948, the U. S. State Department also published a collection of documents titled Nazi-Soviet Relations, 1939 – 1941: Documents from the Archives of The German Foreign Office, which contained documents recovered from the Foreign Office of Nazi Germany revealing Soviet conversations with Germany regarding the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, including its secret protocol dividing eastern Europe, the 1939 German-Soviet Commercial Agreement, and discussions of the Soviet Union potentially becoming the fourth Axis Power.

Attlee remained opposition leader when war broke out in September 1939.

Sagan recalls that one of his best experiences was when he was four or five years old, his parents took him to the 1939 New York World's Fair.

Atkins did not have a strong style of his own until 1939 when ( while still living in Georgia ) he heard Merle Travis picking over WLW radio.

In the 1939 lecture, Tolkien introduced the term " fantasy " in a sense of " higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form, and so ( when achieved ) the most potent ".

Spencer Jones ' work of 1939 showed that the positions of the Sun actually observed, when compared with those obtained from Newcomb's formula, show the need for the following correction to the formula to represent the observations:

Eka-caesium was discovered in 1939 by Marguerite Perey of the Curie Institute in Paris, France when she purified a sample of actinium-227 which had been reported to have a decay energy of 220 keV.

In 1938 Germany annexed Austria and Italy assisted in Germany in resolving the diplomatic crisis between Germany versus Britain and France over claims on Czecholslovakia by arranging the Munich Agreement that gave Germany the Sudetenland and was perceived at the time to have averted a European war, these hopes faded when Hitler violated the Munich Agreement by ordering the invasion and partition of Czechoslovakia between Germany and a client state of Slovakia in 1939.

Since at least the 1960s, when Marc Bloch's Feudal Society ( 1939 ) was first translated into English in 1961, many medieval historians have included a broader social aspect that includes not only the nobility but all three estates of the realm, adding the peasantry bonds of manorialism and the estates of the Church ; this is sometimes referred to as " feudal society " since it encompasses all members of society into the feudal system.

Selznick's friendship with Cukor had crumbled slightly when the director refused other assignments, including A Star is Born ( 1937 ) and Intermezzo ( 1939 ).

Gardner's dissatisfaction with the group grew, particularly when in 1939, one of the group's leaders sent a letter out to all members in which she stated that war would not come.

This was partly because of the aftermath of the Venlo incident of 1939, when SD and Gestapo agents posing as anti-Nazis in the Netherlands kidnapped two British Secret Intelligence Service ( SIS ) officers lured to a meeting to discuss peace terms.

" Hitler thus intended to prevent internal friction like that occurring earlier in Poland in 1939, when several German Army generals had attempted to bring Einsatzgruppen leaders to trial for the murders they had committed.

In 1933 Wells predicted in The Shape of Things to Come that the world war he feared would begin January 1940, a prediction which ultimately came true just four months early, when the Second World War broke out in September 1939.

The refusal to provide arms to the Jews, even when Rommel's forces were advancing through Egypt in June 1942 ( intent on occupying Palestine ) and the 1939 White Paper, led to the emergence of a Zionist leadership in Palestine that believed conflict with Britain was inevitable.

Thus, when World War II broke out in September 1939, Greece remained neutral.

Mussolini's forces overthrew King Zog when Italy invaded Albania in 1939.

This situation persisted until 1939, when Scottish marriage laws were reformed by the Marriage ( Scotland ) Act 1939 and handfasting was no longer recognized.

Ribbentrop denied correctly that Germany was going to invade Romania, but since his denials were issued in almost identical language to the denials that he had issued in early March, when he denied that anything was being planned against the Czechs, this increased rather than diminished the “ Romanian war scare ” of March 1939.

White, elected to the legislature in 1921 from Calgary, leader of the Labour caucus in the Alberta legislature from 1926 to 1935 ; president of the Alberta Federation of Labour from 1926 to 1941 as well as a long-serving secretary of the Calgary Trades and Labour Council and a Labour alderman in Calgary until 1939.

He became president of the Tasmanian branch of the Australian Rail Union between 1939 and 1941, and president of the Launceston Trades and Labor Council between 1939 and 1942.

Although Labour Party conferences had for years called for the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine, the Labour government now decided to maintain the 1939 White Paper restrictions.

His agitations for a united socialist front of all parties of the left ( including the Communist Party of Great Britain ) led to his brief expulsion from the Labour Party in March to November 1939 ( along with Stafford Cripps and C. P.

Hywel Rhodri Morgan ( born 29 September 1939 ) is a Welsh Labour politician who, as First Secretary for Wales, and subsequently First Minister, was leader of the Welsh Assembly Government from 2000 to 2009.

Albert Houghton, originally a founding member of the Communist Party in Merseyside, had drawn Trotskyist conclusions and by 1939 had " long battled with the Stalinists " in the Labour Party in Merseyside.

Donald Anderson, Baron Anderson of Swansea, PC, DL ( born 17 June 1939, Swansea ), is a British Labour Party politician, who was a Member of Parliament for Monmouth from 1966 to 1970 and Swansea East from 1974 to 2005.

In 1939, the ILP wrote to the Labour Party requesting affiliation subject to a right to advocate its own policies where it had a " conscientious objection " to Labour policy.

Maxton was chairman of the ILP from 1926 to 1931, and from 1934 to 1939 ; he was generally seen as the symbol of the ILP after its break from Labour in 1932.

The paper criticised Sir Walter Citrine after a Paris meeting with French Labour Minister Charles Pomaret in December, 1939.

The group enjoyed some short-term success but gradually faded into the Labour Party, being wound up in 1939.

He initially agreed with James Maxton's moving the ILP out of the mainstream Labour Party, but decided to leave them to rejoin Labour in 1939.

In 1937, she was selected to be the Labour candidate at Reading, for an election expected in 1939 or 1940, which occurred only in 1945 because of World War II.

John " Jack " Anderson Cunningham, Baron Cunningham of Felling, PC, DL ( born 4 August 1939 ) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Copeland from 1983 to 2005, and previously served in the Cabinet.

Michael Hugh Meacher ( born 4 November 1939 ) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Oldham West and Royton since 1997.

At the 1939 Labour Party conference Brown made his mark by a strong speech demanding the expulsion of Stafford Cripps for his advocacy of a Popular Front.

Andrew Francis Bennett ( born 9 March 1939 ) is a British Labour Party politician, who was a member of Parliament from 1974 to 2005.

Constance Ann Cryer JP ( born 14 December 1939 ) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Keighley from the 1997 general election up until she stood down at the 2010 general election.

Kenneth " Ken " Purchase ( born 8 January 1939 ) is a British Labour Co-operative politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton North East from 1992 until 2010.

In the first edition of the News-Letter for 1939, a declaration from National Labour was printed.

In the run-up to an expected general election in autumn 1939, several National Labour candidates were adopted and the party attracted some high-profile figures to defect to it ( including former MP Michael Marcus ).

In early 1939, however, Cripps was expelled from the Labour Party for his advocacy of a Popular Front with the Communist Party and anti-appeasement Liberals and Conservatives.

Clive Stafford Soley, Baron Soley ( born 7 May 1939 ) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.