Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...company of other savory persons who spend their time at it? During the '30s, when the Chinese Communists were the only group who persistently called for resistance to the Japanese invasion of northern China, or when Litvinoff was the only representative of a major power to speak for Ethiopia against Italy, or when the U.S.S.R. alone made an effort to defeat Franco in Spain? Or during the '40s, while the battles of Sevastopol and Stalingrad were being fought, while the U.S.S.R. was managing to save more of the Jewish civilians left in Europe than any other major power...
...delegates had only one certainty: if Iran was not allowed to speak up in meeting,, no small nation could ever put its trust...
...call upon the Roman Catholic Church to be a church and not to attempt to be a state and a church. We shall bring practices to light that we believe constitute a threat to religious freedom. We shall speak firmly but in brotherly spirit...
...Tremendous [cigaret] campaigns are concocted out of nothingness. . . . Nostrums, patent medicines . . . stomach and head soothers . . . speak their own brand of falsehoods . . . through joke and jingle...
Under CIANDE, 50% of the broadcast day is devoted to fun; 30% to education, 20% to information. Interviews with "the man in the street" encourage listeners to speak freely. The Truth Box program calls for questions from the radio audience. It not only gets them (450 a day); it also finds how little the Japs were told in wartime. Sample questions: What is the truth about the battle of the Coral Sea? Will you tell us how American forces landed on Saipan and explain the progress of fighting there? What happened to all the fighting ships of the Japanese Navy...