Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...obtained from the belligerents. Germany last week practically nullified the measure when the official Nazi news agency declared that no guarantees could be given ships passing through mine-infested waters* no exception could be made to the announced total blockade of England. It was impossible, the agency stated, to regard the proposal as a workable proposition in international practice...
...unhappy "Hap" Arnold: "We have not placed the contracts [for 4,200] . . . due to the fact that the industry feels that there are so many uncertainties, unknown quantities that they have to contend with. . . . The Vinson-Trammell [profit limitation] Act has something to do with it; taxes; uncertainties with regard to labor. ..." Said Rear Admiral Towers, recalling that Congress had cut the allowed profit on Navy contracts and Army aircraft contracts from 12 to 8%: "There are two reasons. The reduction in . . . profit . . . has made it very difficult for the aircraft manufacturer to place subcontracts [which] work out about...
Italian King Vittorio Emanuele, who was the Senior Foreign Knight of the Garter and personally stands high in the regard of the British Royal Family, was gazetted out last week with utmost respect. The stall reserved for the Italian King in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, will merely remain vacant, instead of being assigned to some other Knight of the Garter. The knightly banner of the House of Savoy was not destroyed, but placed in the same storage vault which holds that of Kaiser Wilhelm...
Swiss Philosopher de Rougemont's ambitious thesis is that Europe and the Western Hemisphere owe their desperate plight to their over-susceptibility to passionate love. Ancient Greeks and Romans, says he, regarded love as a mental aberration, an unqualified misfortune; Orientals so regard it today. Only in the Western world has it taken a hold in the mores, been accorded respect. Taking Tristan and Iseult as the archetypes of passion, he hangs on their necks more weight than Freud ever hung on Oedipus...
Though the German-controlled Paris press hammered furiously at the Vichy Government, Parisians believed that. wobbly and temporary as it was, it was putting up a skillful, stubborn fight against the Germans. They did not understand how Americans could regard the Petain administration as a German puppet. For their own part, they hated Hitler who beat them, Reynaud who led them to defeat, but most of all the British for attacking their fleet at Oran and Dakar...