Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British-French-Russian military talks got more & more press notice, Professor Riley got less & less. Russia's witty Defense Commissar Kliment Voroshilov received the British and French delegates with sparkling good will. They dined and wined each other. The Russians took their visitors to the annual "aviation holiday." Everyone was in great good humor; every one thought the alliance was all but accomplished...
...this week Professor Riley was back in the news. The Russian press suddenly bristled with charges that Britain sought another Munich agreement. This time it would be between five big powers, with the U. S. included, the U. S. S. R. not. Why had hypocritical Mr. Chamberlain sent this Riley man to Danzig without even consulting Parliament? "Signs of a serious set-back to the attempt to get Russia into the peace pact front have to be recorded today," Correspondent G. E. R. Gedye cabled the New York Times. He could scarcely have expected how momentously right and wrong...
There is little heroic in a war of nerves. Its assaults are vicious whispers and strident insults, currency raids, press bombardments, radio tirades; its triumphs have scarcely more grandeur than a nervous breakdown...
...offensive had the sweep of a great military campaign. Resistance to it had a kind of heroism in its stolid refusal to give way to alarm. As the week wore on the grand strategy of the Axis high command became clear. Main objective was Danzig, on which the German press poured a steady fire. But as Grant pounded Richmond while Sherman swept through the South in a wide circle, the great offensive in the war of nerves was launched simultaneously on two fronts: Poland was attacked by the main army while in the Balkans assaults, feints, raids, tested the strength...
Foreign Minister was racing from one Axis capital to another, and no word of his policy appeared in their press; they were involved in a growing Polish-German conflict, but did not know how deeply; they were menaced by troop movements that had nothing to do with Hungarian conflicts. Result was that Hungarians high and low wanted to be Hungarians and nothing else. Whether the Axis ran from Berlin to Rome or from Berlin to Moscow, Hungarians were determined to close their ranks...