Word: foreignism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Paris André Géraud (Pertinax), known for his information sources in the French Foreign Office, cabled to the Baltimore Sun: "Italy is hastening all kinds of preparations in Libya. She is accumulating war material and building an airdrome in Kufra. She is gathering troops along the borders of French Somaliland. As to Germany, she will have 1,500,000 men under arms about March...
...Foreign Editor William Philip Simms of the Scripps-Howard newspapers told his readers that he had received from Nazi commercial sources information that Germany, Italy and Japan were planning a "showdown." Almost alone of the correspondents, Editor Simms did not mention a specific day, said the crisis would come "within four to six weeks at the latest...
...Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano was asked by British Ambassador Lord Perth to explain Italian reinforcements in Libya, which lies between Egypt and French Tunisia. To Lord Perth this was a violation of the Anglo-Italian Treaty of last April. Count Ciano admitted that the Libyan garrison had been doubled from 30,000 to 60,000 men, that even more might be sent. His reasons: the French had concentrated 200,000 men in Tunisia. French estimate of French and native troops in Tunisia...
Biggest headache to foreign statesmen is trying to figure out what Americans think of them and the wars they are thinking of fighting...
...boycotts, as are practically all U. S. Jews, many militant Christians and that girlish-voiced Cassandra, Miss Dorothy Thompson, as well as Communists hewing to the Party line. The U. S. President also belongs to Camp No. 2 and, although he protests that he stands with George Washington against foreign entanglements, is doing all he can to arm the European democracies as well as the U. S.* The scrappiest member of this camp is not the President, however, but the President's wife, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, who declared three weeks ago: "I am not sure that...