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...question of Italy's entry into the war. In addition, a meeting of the Fascist Grand Council, which everyone thought would decide the date when Italy would go over the top, was cancelled. WASHINGTON -- Congress and the Administration moved on three fronts tonight to thwart any European attempt to disturb the status quo of this hemisphere after one Congressman described the situation as "damned serious...
Many a U. S. appendix is still marked "Do not disturb"; but many another is no longer at home. Last week a famed specialist suggested (by implication) that more than one appendectomy he knows about was no better than a kidnapping. Several years ago, Mayo Clinic's famed Digestion Expert Walter Clement Alvarez started a notebook in which he collected experiences of patients whose appendixes had been reft from them. Last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association he told what he had learned from 385 patients. Of these, 130 had suffered at least one sharp bellyache...
...boss, Secretary of State Hull, demanded to see a transcript of the speech, and as Jimmy flew back to his New Jersey estate, delivered a stinging and public rebuke: "The address contravened standing instructions to American diplomatic officers. . . . Such public statements by our diplomatic representatives are likely to disturb the relations between this and other governments." The Hon. Mr. Cromwell, his head still on but his diplomatic bottom well spanked, was told to observe in future the "standing instructions...
...Minister Count Ciano sent to British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax a stiff, formal note, warning that "the coal in question meets an indispensable need in the life and labor of the Italian people," criticizing Britain's coal blockade system it declared the blockade "is of the kind to disturb and compromise economic and political relations . . . between Italy and Great Britain," served notice that Britain would be responsible for "further developments." Next day Britain defiantly announced that it had taken into custody two Italian ships carrying German coal. In Rotterdam other Italian ships were still loading coal. Question: would...
Slight, brisk, spruce in the uniform of a major general of the British Expeditionary Force, the Duke of Windsor appeared at a London hotel, quickly turned in, leaving a "do not disturb" request at the desk. He was in England "on business." The Duchess of Windsor remained in France...