Word: noting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...demand for candor, and an insistence on simple humanitarian considerations, exercised an astonishing force. In Washington Secretary of State Hull issued a stinging resume of the case that listed contradictions in Russia's position, reiterated the U. S. claim that the ship be returned, and sounded the democratic note again by concluding: "Each person can judge for himself . . . how much light is shed on this entire transaction by the action of the Soviet Government in withholding adequate cooperation with the American Government with respect to the . . . essential facts pertaining to ... the whereabouts and welfare of the American crew...
Complaints against the Allied blockade have been registered by Argentina, Chile, Japan, The Netherlands, Belgium, the Scandinavian countries, the U. S. But these complaints were private. Last week Germany's big new friend Russia complained formally, officially. In a note handed at Moscow to British Ambassador Sir William Seeds, Vice Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vladimir Potemkin found the interests of neutral countries gravely impaired, international trade destroyed...
Declaring that "many turn their gaze with renewed hope to the Church, the rock of truth and of charity," Pius XII nevertheless took note that, to many, the precepts of the Church are "an object of suspicion, as if they shook the foundations of civil authority or usurped its rights." This the Pope denied. But he forthrightly marked off the Church's stand when he said: "So many noble minds separated from us ... are recognizing in the Catholic Church principles of belief and life that have stood the test of two thousand years . . . [the Church] is generous...
...this symphony of common sense, a not quite harmonious note is added by stock market reports such as this United Press dispatch of October 22: "The possibility that the stock list may embark upon a new forward drive was enhanced over the weekend by Germany's decision to intensify the war. Last week stock prices climbed to within striking distance of the 1939 peaks on indications that peace moves had failed." Disillusion grows with the reading of a pamphlet of the New York investment firm of Bonner and Bonner: "We believe that sound steel stocks, purchased around current levels, will...
...note: Let Harlow look to his idcology...