Word: interview
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Disgruntled Britons, still griping about the proposed $4.4 billion loan from the U.S., had a somewhat sour spokesman in one Tom Collins, London suburbanite. His comment, in a News Chronicle interview: "The loan should be liquidated by charging the U.S. a yearly rental for the use of the English language...
...years had passed since Francisco Franco called Germany and Italy "dear nations who were the vanguard of our movement." Last week he received the A.P.'s slow-to-startle DeWitt MacKenzie and startled him with this interview...
...have any gentlemen friends." Newsreel men handed her a canned speech to read. "That's the worst speech I ever heard," said she. Cameramen took closeups. "We never did this to Mrs. Roosevelt," the Viscountess protested. "No other country in the world behaves like America!" At interview's end she moved off, cried loudly as she departed, laughing: "Goodbye, you horrors-you horrors...
...ring laughed, bowed, took notes, eyed pretty girl reporters in the gallery. He gave an interview to the Associated Press in which he defiantly proclaimed himself a "true paladin of my Führer" and declared that, if he had the choice, he would do the whole thing over again. Generally, his courtroom poise was much better than it had been twelve years ago, when Communist Georgi Dimitroff made a fool of him at the Reichstag fire trial...
Hirohito has been inaccessible to Allied correspondents since last September, when the U.P.'s Hugh Baillie and New York Timesman Frank Kluckhohn interviewed him, severally. But the press does not give up. Every week one crafty newsman, who knows the Emperor's fondness for sweets, sends a 3-lb. box of candy to the Palace with a request for an interview. So far, no dice. "The Emperor's first interviews," explains an Imperial Household official, "have still left a bitter taste with his advisers...