Word: coopered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reference to Alfred Duff Cooper's toast to the Empire on St. George's Day, in which he named the German people, as well as the Nazi regime, as Great Britain's hated target...
...Minister of Information: bloody-shirt-waving Alfred Duff Cooper...
...Lady Diana Duff Cooper...
...typical" young American who has visited the English people, the German, and the French, and my opinion of the European situation is that of the "typical" American Lady Cooper mentioned in her letter (April 22). The idea that, should Germany rule Europe and the seas, her next step would be in our direction is preposterous! As if she wouldn't have enough on her hands keeping down all her subdued countries-even for the short duration they probably will remain under her control...
...Duff Cooper is only an M. P., but some British opinion is trending his way. Last week even Sir John Reith, stuffy Minister of Information and onetime head of British Broadcasting Corp., intoned with his heavy boom: "Britain is fighting Germany and the British people are fighting the German people. Don't let there be any mistake about it." Nonetheless there was such stiff public criticism of Duff Cooper's attitude that two days later he hastened to amplify it: "I think it is essential to destroy [the] German armed forces and not let them have weapons again...