Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, formally accepting the invitation for the U. S., announced that the sole U. S. delegate to the Brussels Conference would be Ambassador-at-Large Norman Davis. Accompanied by two State Department advisers, a secretary and a press officer, Delegate Davis was to sail this week...
...Sept. 20 et seq.), France and Britain moved last week to do something serious about the more important question of Italian volunteers in Spain. These, estimated by French military observers to number between 65.000 and 80,000 men, were last week admitted for the first time in the Italian press to number 40,000. Pouted the Italian Foreign Office's news agency, the Informazione Diplomatica: "Absolutely fantastic figures have been given and continue to be given with the evident purpose of creating a war psychosis. It is scandalous that a former head of the British Government like Lloyd George...
...press II Duce's advantage too hard, Italy's Ambassador in London, chin-tufted Dino Grandi announced last week that Italy was not "unalterably" opposed to withdrawing her "volunteers." Italy was willing, said he, to make a "symbolic recall" of approximately 5,000 men-IF belligerent rights were awarded General Franco at once, and IF an equivalent number of foreign volunteers were withdrawn from the Leftist armdes at the same time...
Facts about Germany which came over the cables last week as the world press eagerly followed the Duke and Duchess of Windsor's inspection of how the common people fared in Naziland (TIME...
...King of England, George VI, last week wrote a letter to one of his aunts telling her that His Majesty also takes the keenest interest in housing conditions among his subjects. Aunt Alice, Countess of Athlone, promptly released this to the British press which gave it about the same prominence as the Duke of Windsor's interest in housing conditions...