Word: oratorical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In ringing tones Orator Chamberlain cried: "His Majesty's Government stand by these declarations!" That pretty well took care of rumors of the week before that "Young Turks" hoped to turn out old Neville Chamberlain for failing to support Mr. Eden's uncompromising hostility to aggressive Italy and...
Orator Hitler, always somewhat feminine in contrast to the Italian Dictator's pronounced masculinity, gushed to the German Reichstag about "the leader of that great Fascist country, who is such a great friend of mine!" Der Führer continued, "I should like to express to the great Italian...
The Czechoslovaks have an excellently equipped army of 173,000, have been proclaiming for weeks that they will fight if their border is crossed by the Germans. These brave words from brave men Der Führer duly took into account, but not in the way expected. Since he had...
Enraged French Leftists, including some War veterans, staged a riot 4,000 strong along the Seine, shouting anti-Fascist slogans, and four Paris policemen were stabbed with knives. Soon afterward 3,000 leaders of Communist groups in all parts of France were summoned to Paris for a conference with French...
The 35-minute address of Orator Hitler, who usually speaks for some two hours and a half, struck these keynotes: 1) friendship with Mussolini, which drew the loudest Reichstag cheers; 2) denunciation of "Schuschnigg who possessed no legal right of existence!" which drew loudest boos and cries of "Schuschnigg shame...