Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reply that to some extent at least served to quiet fears that the Navy was to be used to help England police or challenge the world. He said that the bill itself would contain a "definite statement of what the fundamental naval policy of this country is," proceeded to read it. The bill defined the fundamental naval policy of the U. S. to be maintaining a Navy adequate to afford "protection to the coastline in both oceans at one and the same time; to protect the Panama Canal, Alaska, Hawaii and our insular possessions; . . . to guarantee our national security...
...headed by the Bishop of Chichester was promptly rejected. Soon even Dr. Niemoller's three lawyers had been sworn not to say a word about the trial to anyone outside the court. Meanwhile, the whole German press obediently printed not a line in which the German people could read anything about the trial or even that it was taking place. After the first few days, Berlin representatives of the comparatively privileged foreign press had extreme difficulty gleaning what was going on in court. Secret police swarmed in the corridors, ostentatiously eavesdropped whenever a correspondent was seen in conversation with...
Austrians became worried to the point of panic last week, when they suddenly read in their papers that Chancellor Dr. Kurt von Schuschnigg had not only slipped out of Austria without warning but was actually conferring in Bavaria with Adolf Hitler and new German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop at the mountain snuggery of the Fuhrer...
...suspended and all power in the hands of King Carol, who had proclaimed nationwide martial law, replaced the prefects of Rumanian districts with the local military commanders, and ordered all Rumanian citizens having arms or ammunitions to surrender them to His Majesty's Government. In morning papers, Rumanians read that shortly before dawn the Orthodox Church's venerable Patriarch Miron Cristea, 69, had been sworn in by King Carol, 44, as Premier of what His Majesty was pleased to call a "National Concentration Government...
...movement of enlightenment and toleration. . . " Impressed by Lord Hugh's arguments, the Church Assembly nevertheless put off action on the repealer until its next session. The Assembly did take action en another matter put over at its last session. An Anglican layman named G. W. Currie had read, in a survey of 30.000 London houses owned by the Church, that some Maida Vale properties were "of dubious reputation morally." There were stories that girls in chains had been found in a Church-owned flat. Layman Currie moved a resolution deprecating this situation. But from testimony it appeared that, wherever...