Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deed came immediately: the President announced his acceptance of Hugh Wilson's resignation as Ambassador to Germany. Mr. Wilson had been home from his post since November. The timing of his permission to resign formally could only be construed as a protest against the invasion of Poland. >Secretary of State Hull in effect suspended outstanding U. S. passports, announced that only in cases of "imperative necessity" will passports hereafter be issued to U. S. citizens for travel in perilous Europe...
...Washington, Mr. Roosevelt denied that there was any discrimination against the Bremen.* The British Aquitania, French Normandie, Italian Roma and other ships at other ports were similarly searched (but none so thoroughly). The President, with a perfectly straight face, referred to the distant cases of the British-built privateers Alabama and Shenandoah in Civil War days, which fitted out at sea after leaving England and preyed on Union shipping, thus establishing U. S. claims against England. But the Washington Post, with delicious euphemism, seemed to state the President's purpose more exactly when it editorialized: "... This inconvenience and danger...
...Mr. Roosevelt then made, yet did not make, the one statement in which his listeners were most vitally interested. Said...
...body of Neville Chamberlain would probably become a physical wreck in a few hours. But at the end of last week the British Prime Minister had been through 13 days of such labor, strain and anxiety as would have wrecked the constitution of many a man under 30. And Mr. Chamberlain emerged from it rather fatigued but quite unshaken. Fortunately the old do not need much sleep...
With sandbags around its entrances, green shades over its windows, the House of Commons was garbed for war. Still cool, dressed in a black suit and wearing a wing collar, Mr. Chamberlain began, "I do not propose to say many words tonight." He said about 2,000. He spoke in a low voice, fiddled with notes written on small sheets of white paper. He said that Britain's defenses were stronger than in 1914. His voice broke slightly when he read Britain's ultimatum. It grew angry when he said that if Poland remained undefended every country in Europe would...