Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost alone in the U.S. press, the alert St. Louis Post-Dispatch took notice of Will Rogers' remarks. Said the Post-Dispatch last week...
...Week in the U.S.A." The Graphic added that real harm was being done to the world-vital friendship of the U.S. and Britain. The Daily Mail bitingly satirized the world-touring U.S. Senators who loosed a flood of U.S. pride and criticism last fortnight. A writer in the Sunday Dispatch laid the blame for the Darlan deal in Africa and the recognition of Italy as a cobelligerent at the respective doors of U.S. statesmen bent on kid-gloving Vichy and U.S. politicians rounding up Italian-American votes...
...Lisbon dispatch reported that military material was "constantly appearing on the wharves." As long ago as 1938, British weapons were being delivered to Portugal...
Wrote De Luce: "They urged quick dispatch of American and British troops across the Adriatic and promised the people would gladly tear out their vineyards to make landing strips. . . . They argued also for sending grain, beans, rice and medical . . . supplies to Partisan areas where the population is facing hunger and disease. . . . 'But arms are the most important of all. We can fight without food but we cannot fight without arms...
...headquarters of the Associated Press one evening last week came a flash from Bureau Chief Edward Kennedy at Algiers that made A.P. eyes pop: "DE LUCE MADE TRIP INTO BAL KANS WHICH ARRANGED ITALY. WILL WRITE SERIES STORIES. DE LUCE DESERVES HIGHEST CREDIT." Then came the first De Luce dispatch. The astonishing dateline: "A Partisan Brigade Headquarters, in Yugoslavia...