Word: answer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chat with Franklin Roosevelt. "Did I realize, I was asked, that when I made a speech or wrote an editorial I was quoted by the Republican press only because of the fact that I was formerly a member of his administration? It took a minute to answer that one as gently as I knew I must...
...division of Poland was to be. It found out (see p. 29). All manner of meaning lay upon that carving, who got what, and why; how closely Hitler and Stalin were collaborating, and for how long; in which direction, if any, Stalin planned to go-and here was the answer, more perplexing than the problem itself. Next question: What would Hitler say after he had conquered Poland...
Anyone owning foreign securities who dropped in at a French bank to cash the coupons was asked if he was French. In case the answer was "yes," the bank deducted 36% of the payment as a tax. Down at the other end of the economic scale, French workmen found their overtime pay docked by a tax of 25% also for "national solidarity...
...never raised his voice once. . . . He was, he said, 50 years old: he preferred war now to when he would be 55 or 60. I told him it was absurd to talk of extermination. Nations could not be exterminated and a peaceful, prosperous Germany was a British interest. His answer was that it was England who was fighting for the lesser races whereas he was fighting only for Germany: Germans would this time fight to the last man: it would have been different in 1914 if he had been Chancellor then...
America's "answer to the threat of totalitarian war," he said, is the same as it was in 1917-18,--a reliance on what President Wilson termed "the spontaneous cooperation of a free people." He pointed out, however, that the "big stick" of coercion is "available for use on the recalcitrant if necessary...