Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rumor swirled across Europe: Hitler was in the latter phases of paranoia. He had been seriously injured in last summer's bomb plot. He had been partially paralyzed by an apoplectic stroke. He had undergone a throat operation. He was under the care of four doctors, including a brain specialist. On his physician's advice, he had retired to Berchtesgaden. He had been deposed by Gestapoboss Heinrich Himmler. He was simply keeping out of sight so as not to associate himself in the minds of Germans with the days of defeat. He was dead...
From Switzerland came a rumor with direct bearing on the Italian campaign. The report: burly, ex-Airman Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, sparkplug of the wily German defense, had followed in the tire-tracks of the late Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, been "very seriously" wounded by Allied planes which sent his automobile spinning axle over top near Bologna. Berlin said nothing...
Over Ottawa last week hung an air of crisis. On Parliament Hill newsmen heard rumors that an election might be called, that some Cabinet members had threatened to resign, that there would be a special session of Parliament. Said Toronto's Government-baiting Globe and Mail: "The [Army] manpower crisis . . . is moving rapidly to its climax. All the evidence is that this time settlement cannot be delayed. . . ." Not everything was rumor. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King had called all 21 members of his Cabinet into special session. One member was summoned all the way from Vancouver...
Last week the scandal broke. After seething for days, Paris newspapers lashed out bitterly at short-memoried French playboys, barging about the capital in fancy cars. More in the know, the U.S. Army spoke more sternly: it announced the assignment of a large number of added guards (rumor said a whole division) to its Normandy pipelines, with orders to shoot to kill...
...State Department feared, if Washington rumor was right, that a Pan-American conference might take up the painful question of Argentina. This the Latin Americans denied vehemently. Most of them had withdrawn their ambassadors from Argentina. Beyond this action, they wanted no part in the U.S.-Argentine conflict, which they consider a U.S. worry...