Word: laterally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...World War I, the similar Ministry of Blockade did not really get the screws on before 1917. When it did, the results were accounted the greatest single factor leading to Germany's final collapse. The Blockaders under Lord Robert (later League-loving Viscount) Cecil gradually pushed neutrals into yielding belligerent Britain's right to have the Royal Navy arrest neutral shipping on the high seas, and "examine" its cargoes...
What is propaganda? Once the word meant nothing more than the legitimate promulgation of ideas. World War I and the methods of totalitarian governments later gave the word a new meaning, linked it to organized, wide-scale lying, the deliberate manufacture of atrocity stories, misrepresentation of enemy aims, minimizing of enemy successes, exaggeration of enemy defeats, the conscious manipulation of sentiments to arouse war spirit, hatred of the enemy at home and sympathy among neutrals abroad. The pattern of propaganda remains the same, though varying in degree and accent according to the country it comes from. The threefold task...
...news exciting if any Frenchman was going to. But French official war communiques, while a little newsier than the British, were as guarded as Devil's Island. It was as though the French were reluctant to make big claims lest they have to retract them later...
...Poles feel themselves betrayed by their Allies and tonight demoralization is spreading rapidly. The fall of Warsaw is expected tomorrow." Because of the announcer's accent, and because Warsaw 1, unheard for several hours, had been thought bombed, many listeners to this broadcast smelled a Nazi. Sure enough, later that evening Warsaw's Radio Station 2 came on, warned Poles against broadcasts purporting to come from Station 1, which had been disabled; assured its listeners that Warsaw still stood; sought volunteers for trenching and barricading; switched to Polish music...
...General at San Francisco, received a fake telegram demanding his resignation from swank Olympic Club. The fast-talking Consul General-trusted confidant of Adolf Hitler and good friend of Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe, who was publicly called a "dirty spy" in London's Ritz (TIME, Sept. 11)-resigned. Day later he was back in, but club members were reported getting up a true ouster bill this time...