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In the second half of March 1939, Goerdeler together with Dr. Schacht and Hans Bernd Gisevius visited Ouchy, Switzerland to meet with a senior French intelligence agent representing the Premier Édouard Daladier Goerdeler told the Deuxième Bureau agent that the strain of massive military spending had left the German economy on the verge of collapse, that Hitler was determined to use the Danzig issue as an excuse to invade Poland, which in itself was only a prelude for a German seizure of all of Eastern Europe, that a forceful Anglo-French diplomatic stand could deter Hitler, and that if Hitler were deterred long enough, then the economic collapse of Germany would cause the downfall of his regime.
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The first half of The Charles Men, ending on the climax of the battle of Poltava in 1709, is more dramatically coherent than the second.
The second half of the sixteenth century in England was the setting for a violent and long controversy over the moral quality of renaissance literature, especially the drama.
But during the second half of the century its fortunes reached a low point and when in 1897 Cyrus H. K. Curtis purchased it -- `` paper, type, and all '' -- for $1,000 it was a 16-page weekly filled with unsigned fiction and initialed miscellany, and with only some 2,000 subscribers.
However, the healthy inventory position of the textile industry lends support to the broadly expressed belief that improvement in that industry can be expected by the second half of 1961.
I like to shear half my plants at a time, leaving one half of them to blossom while the second half is getting started on its new round of blooming.
In the second half of the Sixteenth Century, Sinan, the great architect who is the Michelangelo of the East, designed the massive buttresses that now help support the dome.
My guess would be that interest rates will decline moderately into the spring of 1961 and during the second half of the year will turn up gradually to recover the ground lost during the downturn.
Under the most favorable assumptions for increase, the Bureau of the Census projects that the annual rate of household formations will rise from about 883,000 in the last two years of the Fifties to an annual rate of about 1,018,000 in the first five years of the Sixties, and to a slightly higher annual rate of 1,083,000 in the second half of the decade.
During the Seventies the projections show a more pronounced rise to an annual rate of 1,338,000 in the second half of that decade.
The average annual rate of 1,083,000 in the second half of the Sixties is still considerably below the annual rate of 1,525,000 in the three-year period from April 1947 to March 1950.
At that time the second half of the Christian Youth Crusade against Communism will be staged.
The second half of the film `` Communism on the Map '' and the movie `` Operation Abolition '' also will be shown.
The specific instance I have in mind is the Afro-Asian version which has gained prominence only in this second half of the twentieth century.
The second half of her program was devoted to Russian composers of this century.
Susan Johnson, as the widow, spends the first half of the play running a bar and singing about the unlamented death of her late husband and the second half trying to acquire a new one.
Choreographed by Mr. Nagrin, the work filled the second half of a program that also offered the first New York showing of Miss Tamiris' `` Once Upon A Time '' as well as her `` Women's Song '' and Mr. Nagrin's `` Indeterminate Figure ''.
Wait for me, Laban, I'll be dressed in half a second ''!!
It was Australia's second consecutive innings defeat in a wet summer, and the hosts were in strong positions in the two drawn Tests, in which half the playing time was washed out.
With the Academies in Europe ( second half of 16th century ) the gap between fine and applied arts was definitely set.
As a theologian Alain de Lille shared in the mystic reaction of the second half of the 12th century against the scholastic philosophy.
In the second half of 1226, Andrew lead his armies to Halych on the request of his youngest son, Andrew.
In the second half of 1231, Andrew led his armies to Halych and managed to ensure his youngest son's rule in the principality.
second and March
On March 4, 1865, Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address.
Alexander Alexandrovich Romanov was born on 10 March 1845 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, the second son of Emperor Alexander II of Russia and his wife Maria Alexandrovna ( Marie of Hesse ).
It was first published in Copenhagen on 4 December 1879, in an edition of 8, 000 copies that sold out within a month ; a second edition of 3, 000 copies followed on 4 January 1880 and a third edition of 2, 500 was issued on 8 March.
This led to a second recording session in March 1926.
The addition of steel guitar whiz Leon McAuliffe in March, 1935 added not only a formidable instrumentalist but a second engaging vocalist.
* One & All Lodge No. 330 was consecrated on the 8 March 1810, it currently meets on the second Monday in each month
* St Nicholas Lodge of Royal Ark Mariners No. 1188 was consecrated on the 2 June 1979, it currently meets on the second Thursday in March, May, September & November
Their second son, Sydney Earle Chaplin, was born on 30 March 1926.
In the celebrations marking the return of democracy in March 1990 at Santiago's Estadio Nacional de Chile, the anthem was played in its present melody, raised to F Major ( the Royal Musical Official Version of the anthem ) which is the original melody of the second anthem by Carnicer, but using the 1847 lyrics as text, save for the original chorus.
Caltech is on the quarter system: the fall term starts in late September and ends before Christmas, the second term starts after New Years Day and ends in mid-March, and the third term starts in late March or early April and ends in early June.
After a few presidents of the Provisional Junta, there were again consuls of the republic, 14 March 1841 – 13 March 1844 ( ruling jointly, but occasionally styled " first consul ", " second consul "): Carlos Antonio López Ynsfrán ( b. 1792 – d. 1862 ) + Mariano Roque Alonzo Romero ( d. 1853 ) ( the lasts of the aforementioned juntistas, Commandant-General of the Army )
They had a second son, Michel, on 17 March 1878, ( Jean was born in 1867 ).
Pregnant with her second child, she gave birth to Michel Monet in March 1878.
The 11th Party Congress would prove to be the last congress chaired by Lenin, he suffered one stroke in May 1922, was paralysed by a second in December later that year, was removed from public life in March 1923 and died on 21 January 1924.
On 19 March 1967, a second plebiscite was held to determine the fate of the territory.
Brewster married second time in Nice, on 26 ( or 27 ) March 1857, to Jane Kirk Purnell ( b. 1827 ), the second daughter of Thomas Purnell of Scarborough.
Arnaz married his second wife, Edith Mack Hirsch, on March 2, 1963, and greatly reduced his show business activities.
A second Canadian production by the Sock ' n Buskin Theatre Company opened on March 12, 2009 for a short run in Ottawa at Kailash Mital Theatre at Carleton University.
The first round of new elections is scheduled to start on November 28, 2011, the second round would be held on December 14, the third on January 3 and the new assembly would convene on March 17.
Thereafter, it remained the second month of the calendar year, meaning the order that months are displayed ( January, February, March, ..., December ) within a year-at-a-glance calendar.
Even during the Middle Ages, when the numbered Anno Domini year began on March 25 or December 25, the second month was February whenever all twelve months were displayed in order.
The more severe program of Russification, called " the second period of oppression 1908 – 1917 " by the Finns, was halted on 15 March 1917 by the removal of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II.
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