Word: answering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American . . . accept a decoration at the hand of a brutal dictator who, with that same hand, is robbing and torturing thousands of fellow human beings? Perhaps Henry Ford and Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh [both decorated by Germany in 1938] will be willing to answer. . . . The bestower of [these tokens] counts that day lost when he can commit no new crime against humanity...
...Nuts to You." Next day in answer to this protest, not Cordell Hull, busy in Lima, but Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles received handsome Dr. Thomsen. Two days before, Dr. Thomsen had informed Mr. Welles that Germany, whose currency export restrictions have long barred the transfer of German estate funds to U. S. beneficiaries, had finally agreed that U. S. heirs would henceforth get their money in full, regardless of their race or creed. Dr. Thomsen is himself an amiable and reasonable man, and deliberate Mr. Welles is a career diplomat of frigid temper, conservative habits, impeccable speech...
Half an hour after Dr. Thomsen entered the Welles office he emerged, imperturbable. Then Mr. Welles issued to the press (including Kurt Sell of the German News Agency) his digest of the interview. In diplomatic language the substance of his answer to the Man of 1938 (see p. 11) was "Nuts...
...Germany is planning to lay down a fourth 35,000-ton ship early in 1939 to add to the three she began in 1936-37 as her answer to France's new battle squadron...
...Freudian and symbolic, his etchings are related in texture and technique as closely to Goya as to Contemporaries Grosz and Max Ernst. One of them is of the Man of the Year (see cover}. Artist von Ripper, an "Enemy of the State" in Germany, considers his work his answer to a Gestapo-Commissioner who warned him to keep his mouth shut...