Word: reporters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appeared in the what-kind-of-a-war-is-this? reports from the first batch of correspondents to reach the Westwall (see p. 31). It appeared in accounts of the mighty invasion of the Russian Army into conquered Poland, in which correspondents, ostensibly praising the Army, declared it had reached that high degree of technical proficiency achieved by the armies in the U. S. Civil War. Of its mechanized might, they said trucks were numerous-so numerous that seldom had so much broken-down machinery been blamed on bad roads. Scorn snowed through stories of impossible Chinese peace proposals from...
...last week by their war budget: income taxes up to 37½% (see p. 27). That kind of strain makes civilians impatient with the military. The impotent, halting performance of Britain's Ministry of Information nourished a growing suspicion that there was just hardly any good news to report. That, too, made the people impatient. They want to see action, to "get on with it." In this war's first 30 days, the only action Allied civilians saw was a creeping infantry advance by the French Army onto German soil, three raids (one moderately successful, two unsuccessful...
...enormous sustained French artillery pounding, presaged last week by increased aerial reconnaissance and exploratory fire, would be quite in keeping with the Liddell Hart "super-guerrilla" plan (see col. 2). Unless his British friends should insist on action more precipitate, Generalissimo Gamelin appeared content to reply to the Stefani report: "After you, Adolf...
...only trouble with the North Sea experiment was that the guinea pigs flatly refuted the experimenters' report. The only unquestioned result was a bewildering altercation between Herr Goring's office and Great Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty, effervescent Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill...
...morning last week when the staid London Times turned up at breakfast with these cryptic numerals above a report of the previous day's debate in Parliament, every good Londoner got the allusion. Britain's bungling, War-born Ministry of Information was still being lambasted in the House of Commons. And the Times head was a plea for help from baffled editors whose effort to get news from the front had been balked by official red tape...