Word: readings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...read with amusement your statement under Radio (TIME, May 22) that the news broadcasts of the B.B.C. are "straight and accurate." Actually, nothing could be further from the truth, as the B.B.C. is as Red as they make 'em, and its distorted, lying and slanderous statements are equalled only by the foreign-language broadcasts from Moscow and the nightly French, anti-Fascist "news" bulletins in Italian from Nice...
...have not missed a copy of TIME since it started. I have read every word of every number. Always I have enjoyed and admired...
...Congress is now fretting over a fourth Neutrality bill, a fourth attempt to make sense of the U. S. desire for peace. The bill sponsored in the House of Representatives by the Administration called for repeal of the mandatory embargo on arms exports. But isolationist Congressmen amended it to read very much like the 1935-36 Nye legislation. This palpable defeat for Roosevelt and Hull was hailed by verbal fireworks in Rome and Berlin. Fascist glee provoked a tart "I-told-you-so" from the President, who promptly called upon the Senate to reverse the House...
True or not, Professor Besteiro was arrested as a "Marxian criminal" when Madrid fell to the Nationalists. Last week 69-year-old Professor Besteiro stood tall and straight before a tribunal of three generals, one colonel and three lieutenant colonels while a court clerk read the long list of charges against him: he was a Socialist and had devoted his life to teaching doctrines that stir up the masses; he had done nothing to prevent the execution of conservatives by Madrid extremists; he was a member of a party that had been responsible for the deaths of Franco supporters...
Soon there was more work for the Chief Clerk. A Madison Baptist and an Italian Methodist canceled their dates to pray for the Senate. A Lutheran, Rev. Morris Wee, instead of praying when his turn came, ambiguously read a psalm: Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful...