Word: answering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More embarrassing to Earl Browder was an admission he let slip that he traveled through Europe during the last two years on a false U. S. passport. Asked to tell what name he had traveled under, Comrade Browder declined to answer on the ground that doing so might tend to incriminate him. Well might he be cautious. Day before, Secretary of State Cordell Hull had warned that all travelers on fake passports would be prosecuted if apprehended (possible penalty: $2,000 fine and five years in jail...
...Great Britain is concerned. . . . Why did we feel it necessary ... to defend this Eastern power when our interests lie in the West, and when your leader has said he has no interest in the West? The answer is-and I regret to have to say it-that nobody In this country any longer places any trust in your leader's word. . . . Your leader is now sacrificing you, the German people, to a still more monstrous gamble of war to extricate himself from the impossible position into which he has led himself and you. In this...
...Fzig, the Corridor, a protectorate over Poland. Then he retired to write out his answer. It was handed to Sir Nevile later in the day: "Your Excellency informs me . . . that you will be obliged to render assistance to Poland. . . . I . . . assure you that it can make no change in the determination of the Reich Government. . . . I have all my life fought for Anglo-German friendship. The attitude adopted by British diplomacy . . . has, however, convinced me of the futility of such an attempt...
...Paris the Foreign Ministry announced that Hitler's answer was unsatisfactory, that by 7 p. m. France would...
...Commentator Thompson was just getting warmed up, the first important application of U. S. radio's self-imposed censorship code occurred. St. Louis' KWK cut Miss Thompson off the air. Said KWK's president, Robert Convey, as though he might have to give Hitler time to answer her: "It was our belief that Miss Thompson was expressing some personal opinions, and it does not seem . . . in view of the N. A. B. code, that anything but reportorial matter would be in the public interest." Next day the isolationist New York Daily News, while not contesting Miss Thompson...