Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Historians may well look back upon last week as a turning point in U. S. foreign policy. Europe's jitters had communicated themselves to Washington so forcefully that President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull agreed the moment had come for another warning to Herr Hitler. Accordingly, Mr. Hull took to the air with a speech, short-waved to Europe, in which he elaborated his thesis of international "order under law." His sharpest point: "In a smaller and smaller world it will soon no longer be possible for some nations to choose and follow the way of force...
...grandson, great-grandson of farmers (George III granted his great-grandfather the family's ancestral acres near Lynchburg), "Cotton Ed" Smith is South Carolina old-style-bulky, voluble, a tobacco-chewer, whittler, turkey hunter, storyteller. Candidate Johnston calls him "the sleeping Senator" but he can point to a long list of farm legislation he brought to passage as chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee. His chief sins against the New Deal were opposing processing taxes, the Court Plan, Wages & Hours, Housing, Anti-Lynching. Last week he eagerly promised to vote with Franklin Roosevelt whenever he thought him right...
Said Minister Zay: "I was unable myself to be the first to enter, but from the highest point I was able to reach I declare Vallot Refuge open." Said Colleague Frossard: "Thanks to Zay, the honor of the Government will be safe...
...this point, Viscount Runciman, British mediator who has been hoping to drag out negotiations until autumn, took action. Viscount Runciman had been 15 days in Czechoslovakia without meeting Konrad Henlein, who thought his prestige would be enhanced if he made the British lord call on him. This, the Viscount had refused to do, but in last week's emergency Lord Runciman consented to motor from Prague into the Sudeten Nazi territory and meet Herr Henlein in the castle of Prince Max von Hohenlohe, whose lands extend right up to the German frontier...
...London, meanwhile, living in exile in a rented house in St. John's Wood with his wife and children, the frail, 82-year-old Viennese inventor of psychoanalysis has become a concentration point for a half-dozen leading U. S. publishers, who are bidding for his incomplete next book. Sums bid have not been disclosed, but are called "tremendous," meaning, probably, somewhere between $10,000 and $25,000. That publishers are bidding on a good thing seems reasonably sure. Freud's work-in-progress is a psychological study of the Old Testament, with special emphasis on Moses...