Word: gist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Missionary Shepherd is today the closest white collaborator of Mme Chiang Kaishek. Last week he was in the U. S. on a speaking tour. In a precise, controlled voice, Mr. Shepherd spoke part of his piece on the radio last week at a New York Advertising Club luncheon. Its gist: "Left to themselves, the Japanese will never subjugate China. With the assistance of America [i.e. with U. S. scrap iron, other war materials], I sometimes fear that Japan will temporarily win this war. I find it difficult to decide whether I am needed more in America than in China...
...rich oil fields and wheat lands of the Kingdom of Rumania. Scarcely had the Aggrandizer got to Vienna on his swing around the new empire before the Rumanian Minister in London, Viorel Teleas, reported to Foreign Secretary Lord Hali fax that Germany had served Rumania an "economic ultimatum." Its gist: trade all Rumanian oil and wheat for German manufactured goods or expect the consequences...
Trafalgar-the Navy's hemispheric defense game off the West Indies (TIME, March 6). In such theoretical exercises, said he, theoretical land masses are imagined on the strategy maps where actually there is only ocean. Gist of his report: the game had failed to demonstrate conclusively whether a foreign fleet could penetrate the U. S. first line of defense and gain a military foothold in the Western Hemisphere, but had proved that the Navy needs added bases in the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Piquant detail of the game: a defense patrol plane, from an altitude...
Although French newspapers only hinted at the gist of M. Bonnet's talk, British newsorgans picked up the lecture and were soon printing the details in full. British Ambassador Sir Eric Phipps fortnight ago called on M. Daladier for an explanation. Angered, M. Daladier called in Foreign Minister Bonnet, gave him a talking to, warned him that another such "blunder" would cost him his job. Then came from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs a sonorous denial that the original Bonnet interview had ever taken place, which few, and least of all the foreign embassies, believed...
...message addressed to "Franklin D. Roosevelt, Amateur Fisherman" and signed "Bishop James Ryan, Amateur Diplomat," he informed the President of his return. In Washington, Father Sheehy delivered to Secretary of State Hull a confidential report on the two churchmen's able job of amateur diplomacy. Its gist: "The foundation has been laid for a 'Catholic front' to protect democracy in this hemisphere...