Word: near
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with Statesmen Hull and Welles, spent 45 minutes with Finnish Minister Hjalmar Procope. All day reports of Russian bombings of Helsinki came to the State Department from the U.S. Minister to Finland. At 6 p.m. Mr. Hull got word that in a raid of 15 planes, bombs had fallen near the U. S. legation, that buildings within three blocks were in flames...
...cash for joining the Allies. This story was cut by British censors in its transmission to the U. S. Not tampered with at all was a widely publicized (and not particularly Cockburn) version of the attempted Hitler assassination, which ended with the conclusion that the assassins were "near-Göring bomb layers"-i.e., accomplices of Field Marshal Hermann Goring, successor to the Führer...
...sign hung in the foreground: This is a private war. The War Office, the Admiralty, the Air Ministry and the Ministry of Information are engaged in a war with the Nazis. They are on no account to be disturbed. Nothing is to be photographed. No one is to come near...
Letters will be sent to the organizations asking them to send representatives to a meeting in the near future at which the committee will be formed, it was announced...
...Those who live near the sea, feed more on fish than on flesh, and often encounter that boisterous element. This renders them more bold and enterprising; this leads them to neglect the confined occupations of the land. They see and converse with a variety of people; their intercourse with mankind becomes extensive. The sea inspires them with a love of traffic, a desire of transporting produce from one place to another . . ." --Crevecoeur...