Word: british
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...originally censored "inside" story declared that Nazi Exile Otto Strasser was plotting a German revolution in Paris. The other covered a "very interesting development" between a "British political party" (obviously the Conservative) and one of a "small neutral country of northeastern...
Latest Cockburn revelation is a story about Britain's wooing of Italy. According to him, Benito Mussolini wants, along with big territorial items, $360,000,000 in cash for joining the Allies. This story was cut by British censors in its transmission to the U. S. Not tampered with at all was a widely publicized (and not particularly Cockburn) version of the attempted Hitler assassination, which ended with the conclusion that the assassins were "near-Göring bomb layers"-i.e., accomplices of Field Marshal Hermann Goring, successor to the Führer...
Also annoyed at the British censorship last week, chiefly for not matching the Nazis in supplying good war photos, was the British weekly magazine Picture Post. In the Nov. 4 issue the magazine shows a blacked-out countryside with a sign hung in the foreground: This is a private war. The War Office, the Admiralty, the Air Ministry and the Ministry of Information are engaged in a war with the Nazis. They are on no account to be disturbed. Nothing is to be photographed. No one is to come near...
...organizations is Queen Elizabeth, whose wardrobe contains a choice assortment of female uniforms (TIME, Oct. 9). Last week in Paris petite Eve Curie, newly installed as Chief of the Feminine Section of the Ministry of Information, made it very plain to the press that most French women, unlike their British sisters, have no time for flossy uniforms, showy organizations. From the French point of view, the fact that Britain still has less than 1,000,000 men under arms, whereas France has more than 5,000,000, means that as yet British women simply have no idea of what...
Unlike London, Paris has no beauteous peers' daughters standing by their Rolls-Royces in trick uniforms waiting for statesmen to emerge from Government buildings and be whisked away. There are no French sailorettes like the pert British "Wrens." At French air fields no uniformed female auxiliaries lunch gaily with pilots just back from showering Germany with leaflets. The wives of French bigwigs, from Mme Albert Lebrun down, simply do such war work as they can, are notably chary of becoming "honorary president" of this or that...