Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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FRED FIELD GOODSELL American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Boston, Mass...
...last few weeks' mail has also brought offers from three U.S. publishers to distribute Hall's magazine in America, inquiries from newsdealers, bids from European publishing firms for foreign language editions. Two Swedish correspondents and representatives of two Australian newspaper chains have shown up for interviews, and the sedate London Times literary supplement reviewed Hall's magazine. Hall's old newspaper, the Guardian, sent a reporter around, too, and his article began: "The American news magazine TIME has been tickled by the enterprise of a new British publication...
Catholic youths, said the Cardinal, had fought for the U.S. "Their broken bodies on blood-soaked foreign fields were grim and tragic testimony to this fact." Would Mrs. Roosevelt deny equality to those Catholic boys? "Now my case is closed," concluded the Cardinal. And even though Mrs. Roosevelt might "attack" him again, "I shall not again publicly acknowledge you . . . Your record of anti-Catholicism stands for all to see . . . documents of discrimination unworthy of an American mother...
...story, like so many others of the mid-20th Century, came to its end in a courtroom. But its beginnings were more auspicious. It began, more or less, on that day in 1926 when the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand and German Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann. Putting aside the enmities of World War I, Briand and Stresemann had signed at Locarno a mutual security pact...
Ailing Ernie Bevin, Britain's explosive Foreign Secretary, pulled a hot potato out of the fire in a foreign policy debate in Parliament and tossed it into the lap of his old wartime cabinet colleague Winston Churchill. Britain's present plight in Germany, said Bevin, was the direct result of the "unconditional surrender" policy adopted at Casablanca by Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Winnie passed the buck in a hurry. The policy, he said, was all Roosevelt's idea; he himself had not been consulted before it was proclaimed...