Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week, her sons waited in vain for her to appear. Next morning they found her body in the morgue, where it had been taken by police after she dropped dead on a busy street. Cause of her death was heart failure-attributable, doctors said, to the shock caused by news of her son's ousting headlined in extra editions of the evening papers...
...Times represents a section of opinion almost as favorable to any understanding with Germany as any in Great Britain. That opinion is now alienated. ... To expel a Times correspondent amounts almost to a diplomatic incident," thundered the News Chronicle. A spokesman of the Times said with icy dignity: "We are not going to send a man to Berlin at dictation of the Nazis. Unless the Germans suffer an attack of sense within the next few days and keep Ebbutt, we shall leave the Berlin post vacant...
...keep Berlin informed of the doings of Germans in Britain. Only one of the three expelled Germans, Werner von Crome of the Berliner Lokalanzeiger, was recognized by the Foreign Press Correspondents Association; the other two, Franz Otto Wrede and Wolf Dietrich Langen, were working for a German news agency specializing in news of Germans living abroad. Of these Langen, supposed to be a close friend of No. 2 Nazi Colonel General Hermann Wilhelm Goring, was lately thrown out of Fascist Italy for promoting the Nazi cause too zealously there. According to the London Daily Herald, "the principal count against Langen...
Vacationing in France, Count Damien de Martel, High Commissioner for Syria, heard the news, shrugged his shoulders philosophically, prepared to return to his nerve-racking...
Though Nazi authorities have seen to it that important munitions plants be well supplied with help, an actual labor shortage exists in several agricultural districts and smaller industrial centres. This fact was last week grim news for many a slovenly business clerk, for Adolf Hitler's personal newspaper, Volkischer Beobachter, gave intimations of a new Nazi plan: to have Government agents comb the personnel of banks, business houses, department stores, newspapers, and to ship all white-collar workers "not fitted for commercial employment" out to work as common laborers in factories and fields...