Word: britain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such a way as to restore to him, for the time being, much of the prestige and composure he lost last fortnight when Congress blew up in his face. Congress continued blowing up: it reduced to hash his Great White Rabbit of 1939 (the Spend-Lend Bill). But Great Britain's concessions to Japan in China, plus educative efforts by Republican Senator Vandenberg, paved the way for denunciation by the Administration of the 1911 trade & navigation treaty with Japan. Gallup polls showing 51% of the voters in favor of clamping down on war materials for Japan assured Mr. Roosevelt...
...sooner had the Senate stopped the President cold on Neutrality last fortnight than Prime Minister Chamberlain announced Britain's appeasing recognition of the "special requirements" of Japan's armies in China. This seeming default by the greatest of the Democracies which Mr. Roosevelt wanted to support enabled California's white-crested, Isolationist Senator Hiram Johnson to crow...
Divorced. Gracie Fields (real name: Stansfield), 41, Britain's No. 1 music-hall comic; from Actor-Producer Archie Pitt; in London, England...
...this letter reached Germany, Dr. Goebbels and his press blew up. German papers reprinted parts of the letter (leaving out most of the above quotations) and Dr. Goebbels devoted 3,800 words to a scorching front-page reply. Gist of it was that Commander King-Hall was working for Britain's newly founded propaganda ministry and that Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax had helped him to compose the letter. In Rome, Fascism's mouthpiece, Virginio Gayda, dutifully echoed this view, took huffy exception to the Commander's reflections on the fighting qualities of the Italians, accused King-Hall...
...airman, journalist and British subject, Charles Grey ("Center of Gravity") Grey is a bird rare as the wingless kiwi. Editor since 1911 of Britain's well-informed trade weekly The Aeroplane, he seldom stuck his balding head inside one, when he did, prayed it would "land slowly and not burn up." In a publication ostensibly technical, aerophobic Editor Grey devoted whopping columns to his pet political peeves and peevish political pets. He was shrilly pro-Nazi, anti-French, abominated U. S.-made planes, roundly clapperclawed the British Air Ministry for buying them. A colorful penman with spectacular contempt...