Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supremacy-which endured from Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth-can once again be saved in an hour of peril. And on that destiny-of-character may also largely depend, if her supremacy is almost over, what kind of world the U.S. will presently have to cope with. The following dispatch, by one of TIME's correspondents, is an attempt to estimate England's character-her spirit, her feelings, her attitudes-in the cold wet weather of defeat in 1942's beginning. Necessarily there is a large element of individual judgment in any estimate of these very real...
...send stories until USAFA headquarters, several hundred miles away, re-accredited them. First they were scooped on the news of the arrival of U.S. troops in Australia when the Chicago Sun's Edward Angly, who arrived on an earlier convoy, went to a neighboring town and filed a dispatch which the censor let slip past...
...secret Ethiopian deal with Mussolini. She exposed the terms of the Hoare-Laval pact. She foretold (from information supplied by agents among the Nazis) the remilitarization of the Rhineland, the Nazi seizure of Austria and Czecho-Slovakia. In time she seemed to be able to see through dispatch boxes, the impenetrable files of chancelleries, the even more impenetrable minds of Europe's statesmen...
Leave It? A premature news dispatch (to the Chicago Sun) disclosed the arrival of U.S. troops in Australia. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson announced that air and ground forces were there "in considerable numbers." Difficult terrain, great sea distances, an aroused army and population-all these made Australia a tough target for the Japs. Nevertheless, one consideration could drive them to hazard invasion now: the conviction that, unless Australia is conquered or isolated, it will become a United Nations base for air, naval and land offensives to recapture the southwest Pacific...
...days after the cartoon appeared, the Tribune printed, under a Washington dateline, a report of a conversation between Secretary Knox and China's T. V. Soong. Said the dispatch: "In an effort to cheer up the Chinese statesman, Knox patted him on the back and said, 'That's all right, T. V., we'll lick those yellow devils...