Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...associated with an organization which called Franco "a good Christian gentleman." In 1935, as Stanley Baldwin's Foreign Secretary, he went to Paris and made an abortive deal with slippery Pierre Laval which sabotaged all efforts to stop Mussolini's rape of Ethiopia (by dismembering the Negus' country and putting the quietus on League oil sanctions...
Then the man who had co-authored the Hoare-Laval deal, who had served Appeasers Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain 1) praised the British-Soviet and Franco-Soviet 20-year treaties; 2) suggested that they be supplemented by air defense agreements; 3) proposed that the United Nations should agree to a bill of rights providing for religious freedom and forbidding imprisonment without trial...
...place where Army Public Relations had a public-relations problem. From the other great theater of Army operations, communiqués passed along by General MacArthur's loyal press chief, Colonel LeGrande A. Diller, had aroused deep doubts-in the New York Times's military expert, Hanson Baldwin, among others-about the General's accuracy in reporting the facts. A recent communiqué asserted that during the Leyte campaign the enemy had "sustained 82,554 casualties." On the basis of the document itself, that precise-sounding total was 58% estimated. U.S. casualties were reported at a ratio...
David Josefovich Zaslavsky is the Westbrook Pegler of the Russian press. He has slashed at General Douglas MacArthur, Military Critic Hanson Baldwin, the late Wendell Willkie, William C. Bullitt. Last fortnight Zaslavsky slashed at Soviet bureaucrats. His theme: the scarcity of nipples in Russia...
What prompted Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin to collect owls? Why do normally intelligent people collect cuspidors, garters, hearses, thimbles? Very simple, say the Rigbys: collecting is one of the basic instincts-animal as well as human (the proprietor of a London restaurant spent years blaming souvenir-hunting patrons for the disappearance of napkins; eventually he discovered that a fat brown rat had built a nest in the wall of the restaurant, there amassed a collection...