Word: musts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After putting his foot in his mouth while speaking to the press during the Washington Disarmament Conference, President Warren Gamaliel Harding, to save diplomatic embarrassment, ordered that correspondents must put their questions to him in writing. Calvin Coolidge perfected this technique by inventing "a White House spokesman" to whom his words must be attributed. Last week when Franklin Roosevelt wanted to read U. S. Business and Labor a lecture on "sabre-rattling" (see p. 63), comparing them to the bad boys of European politics in a way that might have provoked protests from "friendly nations," the "spokesman" reappeared. He also...
...Manhattan, suddenly cracked out on the subject of spies. The U. S., said the President, was woefully under-equipped for counterespionage-for tab-keeping on foreign agents in the U. S. (not for spying abroad, in which the U. S. never did specialize). The Army & Navy intelligence services must be strengthened, said the President. This announcement synchronized misleadingly with the State Department's deadline for the registration of commercial, legal and publicity agents for foreign powers within U.S. borders...
Addressing the Cortes in Barcelona last week, Leftist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin said: "Spaniards must come to an under-standing among themselves without outside aid." Similar sentiments were expressed in July 1937 by Leftist President Manuel Azaña, but last week New York Timesman Lawrence A. Fernsworth wirelessed from France that this time Premier Negrin meant business. In Spain, significantly added Mr. Fernsworth "the suggestion that peace negotiations may be under way is not permissible in the press or in news dispatches sent out of the country." The Leftist Government remains pledged to victory, "a formula that does...
...democratic France the parliamentary rumpus stirred up by this forced the Premier to promise not to use these powers after November 15 without a further mandate from Deputies and Senators. Daladier had previously been voted confidence 535-to-75 by the Chamber, after keynoting: "All Frenchmen must now consider themselves permanently mobilized in the service of Peace. . . . We hope to substitute legal practices for solutions by force. ... In the interests of Peace, we propose to add to old and tried friendships some that are new or renewed...
...aristocrat himself, Edouard Daladier, son of a humble Provencal baker, was a professor of history and geography before he entered politics. As the Senate and Chamber rose last week, to reconvene November 16, the Premier went to work on a sweeping program of economic, fiscal and defense measures which must now be rushed to make the Republic as strong as possible against "new"-or "renewed"- Friend Germany...