Word: noted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Economists will please note that the Roosevelt "Boom" is officially over and we are now in the Roosevelt "Swoosh...
Puzzle which the U. S. State Department has been trying to solve for the last month has been: how to recognize Germany's annexation of Austria without appearing to approve it. Last week Secretary of State Cordell Hull solved his puzzle neatly in two simultaneous notes to the German Government. Note No. 1 recognized the annexation, stated that the U. S. "finds itself under the necessity as a practical measure" of closing its Vienna legation and appointing a consular staff in its place. Net result, since the U. S. ministry in Austria was vacant anyway, was that John...
What Secretary Hull's notes amounted to was recognition of Hitler's coup by handing him a bill. German reaction was complacency that the coup had been recognized at all. Said the Berliner Tageblatt: "In collecting some statements of leading American personalities - statements that were amazingly estranged from realities-we note with satisfaction that in the face of so elementary and at the same time so organic an event as Anschluss the sense of realities broke through in Washington as well...
...Hankow, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, pleased with the Chinese success, encouraged by the continued inflow of Soviet tanks and warplanes, and gratified because his Kuomintang Party Congress concluded fortnight ago on a note of harmony with the Chinese Communists, was still cautious. "There is still a long way to go," admitted Chiang. "Let us not be proud or over-satisfied with preliminary success, or discouraged by temporary reverses! Let us fight with greater determination...
Particularly worthy of attention as an excellent example of dramatic a capella composition is Milhand's Psaume. This begins with a low bass note that is almost like a growl in its quiet intensity. There follows a rapid swell as the baritones rush upward, and the tenors break in with a quick, nervous melody. Soon all the parts join in to carry on the thread of the words until the voices suddenly blend in a soft chord on the word "Jerusalem...