Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most sympathetic foreign reaction to the Roosevelt message came from Britain. British Broadcasting Corp. aired the full text for its own listeners. Salient passages were also sent into Germany, Italy and France during the nightly "straight news" period from the powerful Daventry transmitter. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who has been soundly scored for months by many Britons for not saying what Mr. Roosevelt did, jumped on the Washington speech for a political free ride. He adopted the Roosevelt sentiments about the aggressor nations...
...press of other nations, varying with the degrees of Government control over them, carried the speech complete, summarized or emasculated. German news-sheets professed to be astonished at Mr. Chamberlain's endorsement of the Roosevelt attack, concluded that the British Prime Minister is now taking orders from Washington. "President Roosevelt apparently expects every Englishman to do his duty," gibed the Berliner Boersen-Zeitung. One German leader to take public note of the fact that the U. S. is now one of the Nazis' chief opponents was Karl Kaufmann, political leader of Hamburg, who warned that...
...most alarming storm signals last week were hoisted over Caxton Hall, not far from Downing Street, where a noisy hodgepodge of 300 anti-Chamberlainites, including Conservative and Liberal M.P.s, Communist Party members and editors of the liberal News Chronicle, set in motion the first all-party united front against the Chamberlain policies. Moving spirits behind the meeting were: its chairman, tall, scented Duncan Sandys (pronounced sands), son-in-law of Winston Churchill and, like him, an independent Conservative; Randolph Churchill, florid son of Winston, who has tried and failed three times to enter Parliament; Her Grace, the Duchess of Atholl...
...Recent nightly "straight news" programs from British Broadcasting Corp. in German, designed to counteract the distorted news given by the Nazi officials to the German public, have had a welcome reception in many a German home. BBC has received a surprising number of unsigned letters from German listeners urging it to continue the broadcasts...
...sort of super-press bureau, the New Deal has its so-called National Emergency Council, headed by aggressive Lowell Mellett, ex-editor of the Washington News. NEC does some ticklish inside jobs: e.g., before Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black accepted a medal from the Southern Conference for Human Welfare last November, he phoned Low Mellett to ascertain if public reaction would be favorable. This week Congressman Bruce Barton, Manhattan adman who knows a pressagent when he sees one, introduced a bill to abolish the whole NEC, charging "Its distinguished membership is only a front for a band of 290 pressagents...