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In the spring and summer of 1939, Ribbentrop used Bonnet's alleged statement to convince Hitler that France would not go to war in the defence of Poland, despite the frequent denials by Bonnet that he ever made such a statement ( which would not have been legally binding even had Bonnet had made the alleged statement ; only a formal renunciation of the Franco-Polish treaty by the French National Assembly would end the French commitment to Poland ).
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Meanwhile spring had passed well into summer.
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The season, between spring and summer, belongs to life in its carefree aspect.
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In January, 1958, the Minister of the Interior announced that an election law was ready to be submitted to the King, the rumors of election dates appeared once again, first for spring of 1958 and later for the summer.
In the spring and early summer of that year she met a wealthy foreign tycoon who took her to France, where she later met a very wealthy man and toured all Europe with him.
Adult salamanders often have an aquatic phase in spring and summer, and a land phase in winter.
In gardening, annual often refers to a plant grown outdoors in the spring and summer and surviving just for one growing season.
In addition to the Conservatory, AFI has a tuition-free program called the AFI Directing Workshop for Women that operates each spring and summer from the Los Angeles campus.
Hailstorms occur occasionally in the spring and summer, but are seldom destructive.
Thunderstorms occur throughout the year-they are most common in the summer, but most severe in the spring and fall, when destructive winds and tornadoes occasionally occur.
Harvest was in the late spring and during the dry summer months.
The State Press is a daily paper published on Monday through Friday during the fall and spring semesters, and weekly during the summer sessions.
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Phytoplankton blooms are believed to be limited by irradiance in the austral ( southern hemisphere ) spring, and by biologically available iron in the summer.
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The Breviary itself is divided into four seasonal parts — winter, spring, summer, autumn — and comprises under each part:
They can be grown from seed and mature in summer, or early the following spring.
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spring and 1939
After graduating from PJC in spring 1939, Robinson transferred to UCLA, where he became the school's first athlete to win varsity letters in four sports: baseball, basketball, football, and track.
As part of the fierce diplomatic competition in Ankara in the spring and summer of 1939 between von Papen on the one hand, and on the other the French Ambassador, René Massigli, and the British Ambassador, Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, to win the allegiance of Turkey to either the Axis or the Allies, Ribbentrop suffered a major reversal in July 1939 when Massigli was able to arrange for major French arms shipments to Turkey on credit, to replace the weapons the Germans refused to deliver to the Turks.
Weizsäcker recorded in his diary throughout the spring and summer of 1939 repeated statements from Hitler that any German-Polish war would be only a localized conflict and provided that the Soviet Union could be persuaded to stay neutral, there was no danger of a general war.
The Intelligenzaktion, a plan to eliminate the Polish intelligentsia, Poland's ' leadership class ', took place soon after the German invasion of Poland, lasting from fall of 1939 till spring of 1940.
In spring of 1939, there already was neither single Belarusian official organisation in Poland nor a single Belarusian school ( with only 44 schools teaching Belarusian language left ).
By next spring I shall probably be ... quite alone "; and in Ninotchka ( 1939 ) emissaries from Russia ask her, " Do you want to be alone, comrade "?
In the spring of 1939, the band's fortunes improved with a date at the Meadowbrook Ballroom in Cedar Grove, New Jersey, and more dramatically at the Glen Island Casino in New Rochelle, New York.
: One day, and unless I am mistaken it was in the spring of 1939, I met Moro-Giafferi on Boulevard St. Michel, and I asked him for news of Grunspahn ( sic ) for whom he was the defence lawyer.
When German troops moved into Czechoslovakia during the spring of 1939, Mucha was among the first persons to be arrested by the Gestapo.
In October 1939, the German occupants set up the Judenrat and in the spring of 1942 they set up a ghetto.
In the spring of 1939, the church was locked, probably because demolition was again on the agenda ; however, the 1941 publication of Dmitry Sukhov's detailed book on the survey of the church in 1939 – 40 speaks against this assumption.
Influencing António de Oliveira Salazar's Estado Novo regime in Portugal, Maurras also supported Francisco Franco and, until spring 1939, Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime.
Musial finished his high school education before returning to Williamson in spring 1939.
But Reiser's stellar performances in spring training in both 1939 and 1940 forced the Dodgers to keep him.
Meetings of SS-Group-Leaders ( equivalent to lieutenant-generals ) at so called " spring conferences " were planned since 1939.
In the spring of 1939, Welles began preliminary discussions with RKO's head of production, George Schaefer, with Welles and his Mercury players being given a two picture deal, in which Welles would produce, direct, perform, and have full creative control of his projects.
They were the only black performers in the production that lasted from August 1938 until spring 1939.
But in the spring of 1939, the Rockefeller foundation officers were still unconvinced and " required more solid evidence of achievement " before they would renew funding.
( Previously, following the 1939 annexation of eastern Poland, thousands of Polish Army officers, including reservists, had been executed in the spring of 1940, in what came to be known as the Katyn massacre.
The first elimination of Polish intelligentsia took place soon after the German invasion of Poland, and lasted from the fall of 1939 until the spring of 1940.
In contrast to his enthusiasm for improving ties with Moscow in the spring of 1939, Bonnet felt the opposite about relations with Warsaw.
During the ultimately failed talks for an Anglo-Franco-Soviet alliance in the spring and summer of 1939, Bonnet and the rest of the French leadership pressed quite strongly for the revived Triple Entente, often to the considerable discomfort of the British.
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