Word: german
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Germany, the announcer stated that a fight had occurred in New York City between the crew members of the Queen Mary and those of the Normandie, because the Frenchmen said words to the effect that "England will fight this war to the last Frenchman." The fight (so the German announcer said) required the intervention of New York City police...
...have seen nothing of this trouble in our newspapers. Did it occur? Did we have a voluntary censorship in this case, or is German propaganda so unbelievably crude as to broadcast domestic items to us which are untrue and which can be easily checked...
...Belt!" How about that? The Etsch (called Adige by the Italians) is at present and has been for 20 years held by the countrymen of Mussolini, who a few months ago had completed his plans for driving out of the Adige territory (southern Tyrol) everybody who dared speak the German language. And the Belt is held by Denmark,* whose integrity has only a few days ago been formally guaranteed by the Führer. What has become of the traditional German exactness? The song ought to read "from the Brenner to Flensburg...
Within the vague waterline thus laid down last week, British blockaders and German submarines presumably may not venture without trouble from the U. S. Navy and Coast Guard on peace patrol. But then Franklin Roosevelt, apostle of aggressive, anti-fascist neutrality, intimated that he had no desire to risk getting the U. S. into war by explosive insistence upon classical neutral rights...
...ToPoland's President Ignacy Moscicki, Franklin Roosevelt telegraphed that he was "deeply shocked" by German bombings, for the moment withheld reply to Poland's suggestion that the U. S. extend its arms embargo to aggressive Soviet Russia...