Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Near Ravenna, Italian recruits mutinously objected to being shipped off to Ethiopia, according to a Rome dispatch followed by a Rome denial...
United Pressman Ralph Heinzen, chief of the Paris Bureau, staked his reputation last week on a dispatch opening with this flat statement, "Leopold III, tragic young King of the Belgians, will attempt the hazardous role of Italo-Ethiopian Peace Maker which cost Sir Samuel Hoare his Foreign Ministry and shook the prestige of Premier Laval of France. . . . Rumors current in European diplomatic quarters for several weeks that Leopold was endeavoring to bridge Anglo-Italian differences are based upon fact." Two days before, Paris Correspondent Edmond Taylor of the Chicago Tribune went off the same deep end. In Geneva fear...
...having the Italian Press omit all portions of the speech fitting his Dictatorship, but Pope Pius XI, accustomed to having his slippered foot kissed by dignitaries, supplied the full text to Italians by displaying it verbatim in the Papal news-organ, Osservatore Romano. The official Italian news agency dispatch from Washington, printed by most Italian news-organs, unemotionally recorded: "Mr. Roosevelt pointed out that the world's desire for peace is blocked by only 10 or 15% of the total population of the world and did not hide his pessimism over the outlook in Europe and Asia, where...
...Herod to blame for the Lindbergh exile. Most of the editorial pack first turned on plump, young Governor Hoffman, suspected of putting his foot in the Hauptmann case for reasons of politics and publicity. The Newark (N. J.) Evening News flayed him for "appalling meddling." The St. Louis Post-Dispatch declared that even if he were "guiltless of playing politics ... he has at least affronted the elementary proprieties." The Boston Herald snarled at "the brazenly publicized doubts of New Jersey's unseeing, unperceiving Governor...
Surprisingly last week the Ethiopian censor with His Majesty at Dessye passed a dispatch reading, "If Il Duce wished to instill fear into the hearts of these ignorant natives he has certainly succeeded...