Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day reporters rushed to Secretary Hull's regular press conference at 12:30 p. m. "Gentlemen," said the Border Statesman, giving them a glacial stare, "I have nothing to say on the City of Flint or transference to the Panama flag...
...more likely story was that the two sovereigns wanted to let Adolf Hitler know that they would defend their neutrality, and their frontiers, together. The concentration of Nazi troops on the Belgian and The Netherlands border and the recent tone of the German press and Foreign Office toward the Low Countries made Belgians and Netherlanders fear that both might well need defending...
Under the impact of Nazi press agitation and their own large-scale defense preparations, the peoples of the Low Countries began to experience a real war of nerves, complete with mobilizations, floodings, frontier incidents (see p. 19). The two Governments, with their Cabinets meeting almost continually, got out assuring and reassuring statements, persuaded the Dutch and Belgian press to keep cool heads. But all Belgians and Dutchmen had to do to learn the newest sensation of the moment was to turn on British and French radios. In the U. S. eight-column streamers shouted "GUNS ROAR ON DUTCH-NAZI BORDER...
Meanwhile, the peace appeal itself got less than nowhere. The press and unofficial spokesmen of both sides gave it perfunctory respect. Then, after a decent five days, King George VI and President Lebrun gave it the works...
Last week, with Nazi troops and airplanes still massing just across the frontier, with the Nazi press barraging The Netherlands for not fighting harder against Great Britain's sea blockade, and with a possible Nazi threat about airplanes hanging over Queen Wilhelmina's head (see p. 17), The Netherlands High Command stepped on the starter of its defense engines, set them idling alertly though still strictly in neutral...