Word: ironclads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vienna when the Gestapo kicked him out of Austria. The next year he lost his job with the London Telegraph for criticizing Neville Chamberlain in his book, Fallen Bastions. Month later the Gestapo chased him out of Prague. This summer he lost another assignment. Russia's new, ironclad press censorship had made transmission of news no longer practicable, forced him to close down the New York Times's 18-year-old Moscow bureau. There are now no U. S. newspaper bureaus...
...carry out "to the letter" her guarantees to France and Czecho-Slovakia. Munich followed. In 1939, after Germany took the rest of Czecho-Slovakia, Russia proposed a six-power conference to devise resistance to further aggression. Great Britain said the proposal was "premature." A month later Russia proposed an ironclad, three-power alliance with Britain and France. Nothing happened for three weeks, then Litvinoff resigned...
...language got him into more trouble than did his battlefield impetuosity. In 1930 he was almost court-martialed for calling Premier Mussolini a "hit-and-run driver." Retired, General Butler lectured for peace, published a book entitled War Is a Racket, advocated complete U. S. isolation coupled with an ironclad defense a rat couldn't crawl through." He was a Quaker...
...darting Eleanor Roosevelt was in California last week. "I see no reason for our entering the war-as yet," she said in Los Angeles. "How unnecessary," she wrote (in My Day) of a headlined demand that her husband give an ironclad pledge of peace. Interviewed about Third Term (see p. 19), she said: "My own personal opinion-and not as the wife of a President-is that except in extraordinary circumstances we should stick to our tradition. ..." She lectured. She stayed at Son Jimmy's Beverly Hills apartment, regretfully recorded that he was away (on movie business). Accustomed...