Word: answering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italy, warned Premier Dr. Juan Negrin's Government that it could expect little sympathy or aid from France in that event. In Italy, the controlled press fumed at "Red Spain." Benito Mussolini's journalistic spokesman, Virginio Gayda, writing in Giornale d'Italia, said Italy's answer to Leftist bombs "will be immediate and implacable, not with diplomatic notes of protest, but with cannon." Italian Chargé d'Affaires Renato Prunas warned M. Bonnet in Paris: "We shall reply to acts of war with acts of war." Leftist Spain's Paris Ambassador Dr. Marcelino Pascuo...
Next day, almost in answer to Mr. Chamberlain's expectations, two more British vessels were sunk. The freighter Thorpeness, was hit by an aerial torpedo from a Rightist plane outside Valencia harbor, went down with 7,000 tons of grain. The freighter Sunion, formerly of Greek registry, was showered with incendiary and explosive bombs, burned for six hours and sank...
...island of conventional, economic well-being now in Central Europe.* Czechoslovakia is turning it over to nobody, and that is one reason why President Benes can confidently tell visitors that if they ask the next man they meet in the street whether he will fight the Nazi invaders, the answer will be yes-and his wife will fight...
...helm, but a modern button-control system-a button for port and one for starboard. To the suggestion that old-line Norse steersmen might prefer the traditional twirl of the wheel to this newfangled steering, weathered Captain Kjeld Irgens, commodore of the Norwegian America fleet, had a gruff answer. "Quartermasters," said he grimly, "shall learn to like...
...persistent criticism about his program generally, and austere Sunday broadcasts in particular, Sir John's answer has been: "So long as I am the director-general there will be no change in the character of Sunday programs. . . . The B.B.C. has never attempted to give the public what it wants. It gives the public what it ought to have." While Edward VIII was Prince of Wales, an observer remarked: "Every year the Prince gets more democratic, and Sir John Reith more regal...