Word: britain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Europe, British journals grew increasingly bitter. They wanted more newsmen, fewer admirals in the Ministry. Said the Yorkshire Post: "We do not know who conceived the Ministry of Information but it was strangled in red tape at birth." The Daily Express exclaimed: "Soon we will need leaflet raids on Britain to tell our own people how the War is going!" Thoroughly disgusted, the National Union of Journalists uttered a resolution: "Under present conditions the Ministry is both a national scandal and a national danger...
When the crop came to market late this summer, prices staggered "under the surplus. By September 8, farmers were in a funk; the bellowing auctioneers were knocking down the tobacco at 14½?. Then Britain's big Imperial Tobacco Co., which normally buys a third of the flue-cured crop, stepped out of the market. For one more week the farmers hung on and watched their crops going at ever lower prices. When prices broke through 11? (half of last year's price), they desperately closed the markets...
...German theme is the familiar one that Britain is an imperialistic aggressor, but the favorite targets have been Britain's inept Ministry of Information (see p. jp) and Winston Churchill. Berlin last week caught Britain red-handed in a BBC report of the torpedoing of the freighter Royal Sceptre (see p. 34), in which it was said that, according to a message, all hands had drowned. Who then, Berlin asked, survived to send the message? After the BBC had fumbled with that for a time, Berlin sent its version: that another British ship, the Browning, had been spared...
France has a technique logical, whimsical, Gallic. When the Germans called France Britain's Rin-Tin-Tin, the French lost little time getting out a story that France's real Rin-Tin-Tin, a trained police dog, had indeed enlisted with his master in the French Army. Paris-Mondial spent much air time twitting Germany on the Moscow deal, hinting at a sort of diplomatic cuckoldry with the Soviets reaping the joys of Germany's conquest...
...Great Britain. The BBC, to the much-enduring Britishers, has been a wishy-washy washout, broadcasting mainly late news, and such humdrum as the state of the wallabies at Whipsnade Zoo, the views of ruddy British workmen that things at home are not so bad. But in German, to Germany, the BBC is anything but wishy-washy. Nightly, the BBC exhorts Germans to rise, overthrow their leaders, bring peace to the world...