Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME asked Wythe Williams, foreign news expert and editor of Connecticut's Greenwich Time, for his up-to-the-minute opinion. According to Williams: "Great Britain and France now have their last chance to seize the leadership of Europe that has been usurped by Germany, and thus preserve peace. If they fail, then war is inevitable, probably by the beginning of summer. It will be war to the bitterest end. Germany may lose. But also she may very probably drag the world down with...
...view of the fact that Sudeten Nazi Führer Konrad Henlein has finally reappeared in the news as the new civil administrator of conquered Bohemia, could TIME tell what ever became of the Austrian Nazi Führer, Arthur Seyss-Inquart? Promptly after Anschluss Seyss-Inquart was shelved in favor of Josef Bürckel as Nazi Governor of Austria. Lastly, please what is the present fate of Kurt von Schuschnigg and Pastor Niemüller...
Last week the U. S. Navy had news of the biggest and some of the smallest fighting boats in the world. Big and little, the boats were on paper, but they were near enough to water to catch the interest of admirals, dictators and all those, including Franklin Roosevelt, who thrill to anything that floats...
...Franklin Roosevelt took delight in "scooping" the correspondents assigned to cover him on news of the arrival in Seattle of his No. 5 grandson, a 9-lb. 1-oz. Boettiger...
...that the famous letter Harold Dahl's pretty wife, Edith, wrote to Francisco Franco, enclosing an interesting picture of herself and begging clemency for her husband, never reached the very married Generalissimo. His staff officers handed the picture around and "passed judgment." according to the New York Daily News, "on this and that." Then they wrote her, over General Franco's signature, the likewise famous reply promising mercy and ending: Your obedient servant kisses your foot...