Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...independence and neutrality. The political atmosphere indicated that a major national crisis was at hand and that this would probably be the tell-tale week. Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko, in a big patriotic rally, said that a "period of nerve-testing" was at hand. "The time is difficult," Press Chief Urho Toivola admitted. "We feel our freedom and independence are threatened." Early this week 300 Finns gathered outside the Helsinki Hotel at which U. S. Minister H. F. Arthur Schoenfeld stayed, and sang The Star-Spangled Banner before going on to serenade the Norwegian, Danish, Swedish Ministers...
Whenever dictators want to wash dirty political linen, they run it through a plebiscite, and it comes out pure as Ivory Soap. Last week Soviet Russia made it perfectly clear that Eastern Poland had all along pined to be invaded. While the Moscow press carefully emphasized that there was complete freedom of opinion at the polls, Poles, Ukrainians and White Russians flocked to voting places and cast ballots for candidates for the new National Assemblies (Soviets) of Western Ukraine and White Russia...
...Duff Cooper's first contribution was a press interview in which he announced his belief that the War will be ended, soon or late, by a revolution in Germany of the Right, joined in by the German Army. "National Socialism," said Lecturer Duff Cooper, "is a revolutionary force, a form of Bolshevism, and now the outer mask has been dropped. Many Germans, who had been told that they were the world's bulwark against Communism, now see that they have been made the allies of Communism. And it is well to remember that the Right in Germany...
...night last January in Manhattan's Town Hall, portly, irascible Harold LeClair Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, met Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett in radio debate on the question: "Do we have a free press?" Secretary Ickes' answer was a querulous...
From time to time since then, Harold Ickes has repeated his thesis, with trimmings. Last week he returned to his attack in a book (America's House of Lords, an Inquiry into the Freedom of the Press*) richly documented with I-told-you-so's. America's House of Lords develops the same thesis which its author outlined on the air last winter: there is no danger that the U. S. will impose any Government control upon newspapers, but it doesn't have to: the press is already censored by its business connections and advertisers. Publishers...