Word: interview
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London, outraged Churchill summoned Anders and took him to task for intransigence in a heated two-hour interview. The London Polish Government responded by appointing the General commander in chief of all Polish armed forces still loyal to the London Government. Thumbing his nose again, Anders issued a flamboyant order of the day, addressed to a quarter-million Polish soldiers, sailors and airmen scattered throughout Western Europe and the Middle East: ". . . Our standards covered with glory, we are facing the greatest tragedy of our nation. ... We shall remain faithful to our honor, and to ... Poland, we shall return as soldiers...
Others feared that Peron was scheming to step, not aside, but into the Presidency. To sound out U.S. and Hemisphere reactions to his candidacy, he gave a carefully worded interview to the Associated Press. In phrases dripping with democracy, he promised elections soon. He buttered labor, slammed "the interests": "Never again will oligarchs buy or coerce the vote of a single Argentine worker...
Brazilian newspapermen had waited seven years for a collective interview with their Dictator-President, Dr. Getulio Dornelles Vargas. Last week, in Brazil's summer capital, over 100 reporters and editors jampacked a small, ornate salon, waiting patiently to question Dr. Vargas about the "Additional Act" - his brand-new constitutional amendment...
Inland to ELAS. The delegation was composed of five British trade-union leaders with impeccable labor records. At its head was Sir Walter Citrine, general secretary of Britain's Trades Union Congress. The British trade unionists interviewed scores of miscellaneous Greeks and some 500 British paratroopers (not officers) in Athens. It traveled 100 miles inland to interview ELAS' trade-union leaders, who claimed to be the real leaders of the Greek workers...
...Have you had home economics?" The applicant had to admit that he had not. Said the P.O.: "Well, I'm sorry, but that's required here. Rejected." End of interview...