Word: interview
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rest of the Willkie week: > He warned Britons, in an interview with the London Standard, not to meddle in U.S. politics, either by suggesting that Franklin Roosevelt's re-election is necessary, or by questioning the motives of those who oppose the Administration...
...Marshal wanted the record straight. To make sure, he gave an interview last week to the New York Times's Herbert L. Matthews, the Baltimore Sun's Mark S. Watson and a correspondent of the London Times. He told them that Mussolini had sought to dissuade Hitler from war in 1939, but that the swift advance of the Germans through Belgium and France in May 1940 changed his mind. In placing the blame, Badoglio omitted to mention King Vittorio Emanuele's signing of the declaration...
Wrote Timesman Matthews at the end of the interview: "But one could see where [Badoglio's] heart lay when the writer reminded him of our last meetings in Addis Ababa . . . in 1936. 'Those were better times for Italy,' he said. . . . 'Do you remember Termaber Pass,' he asked eagerly, 'and those three days we waited while . . . the Negus [Haile Selassie] fled?' " And as a soldier Badoglio scorned Il Duce's folly in dispersing his army so that only twelve divisions were in Italy when the invasion came...
...Willkie was back downtown in his suite being cross-examined behind closed doors by the National Contact Committee for the California Republican Assembly. This committee's duty is to examine possible candidates. Willkie's forthrightness apparently impressed the committee whose statement after the interview went surprisingly far: "Mr. Willkie is frank, courageous and deeply concerned about the future of our country. He is a real American and his bid for the nomination will be serious and strong...
...cruiser was part of the first task force to bombard Munda and Vila," he said in an interview soon after his arrival at Harvard. "We also were the first to venture 300 miles north of Guadalcanal...