Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When news that Associate Justice Hugo Black had been a member of the Ku Klux Klan appeared a month ago, the President's only comment was that he would have nothing to say until Justice Black returned from Europe. Last fortnight when Justice Black was addressing some 50,000,000 other U. S. citizens, the President was pointedly riding in an open car (without radio), stopping to exchange small talk with a U. S. Army officer at the gateway to Fort Lewis near Tacoma. Last week, in Chicago, Franklin Roosevelt drove through cheering lines of thousands of Chicagoans...
General Accord. Meeting in Geneva, the League of Nations' Far Eastern Advisory Committee received news of the President's speech six hours before it was delivered. Promptly the wheels of diplomacy began to revolve as scheduled. The Committee drew up a resolution carefully avoiding the word "war," but condemning Japan as an "invader," and accusing her of an infringement of the Nine-Power Treaty (guaranteeing China's territorial integrity) signed in 1922 by China, Japan, the U. S., Great Britain, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal. Next day, in Geneva, the League Assembly unanimously adopted the Committee...
Colonel Frank Knox, publisher of the Chicago Daily News who a year ago, as Republican candidate for Vice President was violently denouncing Franklin Roosevelt, declared "the President's speech was magnificent." The New York Times and the Washington Post published a long letter from Herbert Hoover's Secretary of State Henry Stimson. Mostly written before the President's speech, the letter ended with a paragraph written after it in which the statesman who guided U. S. policy in the last Sino-Japanese crisis in 1931-32 said he was "filled with hope" that "this act of leadership...
...line and Lieut.-General Seishiro Itagaki, advancing on the Peiping-Hankow railway, are supposed to be "friendly rivals." Out of courtesy to them. Japanese military headquarters in China make every effort to announce on the same day that each has captured a town, although this sometimes means holding up news for a day or two to let one of the generals catch up with the other. Last week General Isogai was reported furious because Tokyo had not observed this etiquette but had made the faux pas of announcing that General Itagaki captured Paoting recently on the day he took...
...Best news, even better than President Roosevelt's Chicago speech, in the opinion of many Chinese, was the return to Nanking of the Soviet Ambassador and Military Attache. They recently flew by special chartered plane to Moscow, and Nanking last week hoped for "action" from the Soviet Union, feared the U. S. might hurl only words. Japanese were so scared lest the Red Army strike that Tokyo spokesmen announced 200,000 of Japan's "best" troops have been sent to man the Manchukuo-Soviet frontier, claimed that the Japanese troops thus far sent to China...