Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soviet Premier Molotov promptly sent instructions which caused Ambassador Suritz, now persona non grata in France, to swing aboard the Simplon Express last week. At that, Ambassador Suritz could not have been wholly sorry to leave Paris. Since the war with Finland his Government has been a good deal less than popular in France. On a recent evening French Playwright René Fauchois saw the Ambassador rolling by in his bulletproof limousine, hollered: "Vive la Finlande!" 'Bulletproof notwithstanding, the Ambassador dived for the car's floor...
With 38.7% of its articulate readership on record as "bewildered" about the war and 46% "determined"' (TIME, April 1), last week Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express suggested that the public be "given a clear indication as to the manner in which the Government believe victory can be won." As M. P.s packed up to return to London for the reconvening of Parliament this week, Great Britain's bewilderment had given birth to deep-seated public dissatisfaction with the way its Government was running the "strangest of wars." While the Allied Supreme War Council talked tough, while France...
Shift? "A surprising number" of London Daily Express readers last week returned at their own expense answers to a questionnaire intended to sound British war sentiment. As to the war's outcome, 69.4% "feel confident of an Allied victory"; 27.6% do not; and 1.5% expect a stalemate. Of those who replied, 49.5% called "insecurity for the future" their "greatest wartime discomfort," but 46% are "determined to win at all costs"; 38.7% voted themselves "bewildered...
...Asked to express himself on the closed shop at the annual Bosses' Dinner of the Chicago Junior Association of Commerce, C. I. O. Organizer Van A. Bittner quipped: "I thought all that was settled between 1861 and 1865. Some of the States wanted to withdraw from the Union and a lot of Northerners got killed keeping them in the Union...
...CRIMINAL C.O.D.-Phoebe Atwood Taylor-Norfon ($2). Asey Mayo, mooching around among Cape Cod characters, uses the Quashnet party line and other local antiquities to nail the killer of Henry P. Slocum, rising politician, and his girl. Title-point is an express package delivered to the doctor, containing you-know-what, packed...