Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...word.) Mr. Hoover planned a U. S. commission to check up on the fulfillment of Nazi promises. What he was proposing in fact, as Columnist Walter Lippmann pointed out, was an internal blockade of Germany, in "a vast territory occupied by German armies." Other promises Mr. Hoover hoped to exact from Nazi Germany were a return to the conquered nations of the equivalent of the food Germany had already seized from them, and permission for the conquered countries to import supplies from Russia and the Balkans. These conditions would also be watched by the U. S. commission. Said Mr. Lippmann...
...Luftwaffe's, preliminary "educational" bombings of Britain, from June 18 to last weekend (see p. 17), shows some of the targets which Germany considered most important. The bombed towns are those mentioned in German communiques (the British do not name exact sites). In some cases the Germans may not have hit where they thought, but, other places have also been bombed, by accident, by bombers in a hurry to unload and start for home. In these bombings according to British admission 336 civilians were killed and 476 seriously wounded, less than a normal month's toll in traffic...
These words, which appeared in a Shanghai Japanese newspaper last week, illustrated a familiar truth: the Japanese flair for exact imitation wanders occasionally into the realms of caricature. Last week Japanese leaders were busy as bits of carbon paper trying to copy European totalitarian techniques, and this vituperation was supposed to sound like a last gruff word before a crushing blow, a Hitlerish warning before total obliteration...
...hard French Colonial businessman who seems to be unable to write badly. When he describes a primeval, half-witted stowaway he begins to warm up. When he writes of beasts and birds and reptiles, he is a blend of scientist, sensualist and mystic, but above all he is an exact and subtle artist, at ease in a world entirely his own. Demaison plans a series of volumes - for which his over-all title is La Comedie Animale - to do for the animal world what Balzac tried to do for the human. He stands a very fair chance of succeeding...
...paraphrased the answer of von Ribbentrop (whose exact words were not made public): Germany could not understand why the U. S. had sent its reaffirmation of the Monroe Doctrine to Germany. Germany had no American colonies and "has given no occasion for the assumption that it intends to acquire such possessions. . . ." (So also had spoken the Holy Alliance in the 1820s.) The Nazi Foreign Minister complained that the Monroe Doctrine would seem to confer on some European countries the right to have American territories and deny that right to others. (A Nazi discovery made 117 years after it had been...