Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most remarkable rumor of the week (not attributed to Mr. Forrestal): if U.S.British relations get out of whack, Prime Minister Churchill will fly to the White House himself...
Persistently and fast as rumor always flies, peace talk swept the world last week. In the U.S. isolationists thought that Germany was about to make, or perhaps had already made, a "generous" peace offer to Great Britain, that Britain had better accept it. If such a peace were not forthcoming, they thought President Roosevelt should propose it. The Paris press, which Germany controls, also liked Franklin Roosevelt as a mediator. In Britain and elsewhere there was suspicion that Rudolf Hess had brought peace terms, that official bumbling over the Hess case (see col. 2) was because the terms were being...
These were vague voices of propagandist explanation. No public announcement was made as to exactly what Adolf Hitler and Admiral Darlan had agreed on. Presumably there were many details left to work out. But the consensus of rumor held that: > The line of demarcation between Occupied and Unoccupied France would be opened for the passage of goods, money, mail. > The French daily payment of 400,000,000 francs for maintaining Germany's occupying Army would be cut as much as 25%. > Some 250,000 of the 1,800,000 French war prisoners in Germany would be sent home...
However the breaks fall the meeting will be close and furious. Both teams have suffered injuries recently. Yale's Senior hurdler, Dick Osborn was kept out of the Heps with a pulled ligament. Rumor, however, has it that Saturday Osborn was well enough to work out vigorously on the Yale track, and therefore his participation should not prove too startling...
Although the Invitation has been sent, it is not certain whether the Tigers will be able to row. According to the rumor, Princeton will be represented by a Varsity and a Freshman crew, but the Jayvees probably will not participate...