Word: conflictingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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FROM a war-fearful and hastily rearming England comes a vividly engrossing account of the last world conflict. Recording the struggle from purely a military standpoint, Captain Hart devotes himself mainly to a demonstration of the follies and mistakes of Allied and German generals with the attendant needless loss of life...
...herein lies the book's chief weakness. The horrors and brutalities of war are not brought home forcibly enough. In his attempt to show all the intricate workings out of tactical campaigns the author seems to lose his grasp of the whole. He seems to view the conflict as a struggle between armies rather than peoples. Captain Hart does not appreciate the sufferings and hardships of the civilian population which may truly be considered war's greatest tragedy...
...vitriol, scorn, ridicule and invective to what was being written in Italy. There, Virginio Gayda, Dictator Benito Mussolini's journalistic mouthpiece, declared in Giornale d'ltalia that the President's words were an "open provocation to war," that President Roosevelt "himself plans and welcomes armed conflict." Since the U. S. frontiers are now the Rhine, Signor Gayda said, Italy's and Germany's frontiers should now be extended to the Panama Canal...
...With the fall of Barcelona, for years the most poisonous anti-Christian centre in the world, the war in Spain approaches its conclusion. No one save those whose loyalty to Moscow is certain will regret the end of the conflict. . . . Making Barcelona, formerly the centre of anarchism and antiChrist, the capital of a Christian nation will do much to restore sanity to the world...
Said Propaganda Chief Agustin Arrayo of the first correspondent to be deported from Mexico in years: "Mr. Kluckhohn, in his very active work, maliciously misinterpreted the doctrines of the Mexican Government ... in absolute conflict with the most elemental ethics of journalism...