Word: speech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Greene, however, reiterated his faith in free speech and claimed that his action is in no way a violation of free speech at Harvard. Greene bases his decision on his opinion that a meeting at which the indicted Communist spoke is not "appropriate to the atmosphere and traditions of the University...
Huge crowds stood in Berlin streets, in Hamburg beer gardens, in Magdeburg restaurants listening to a speech over the radio. It was artful-alternating historical review with hysterical threat. The speaker's voice was deep, gruff, staccato as that of a Prussian drillmaster...
...alarm which sent the gathered people scurrying to shelter was because of a Royal Air Force reconnaissance flight-no bombs dropped. The speech which had gathered the crowds was the first important official statement since Adolf Hitler's "final peace offer" on Oct. 6. It was made before the Nazi Party Veterans' League in Danzig by Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. After recapitulating the diplomatic bickerings over Poland, Herr Ribbentrop boarded a verbal airplane and made a grand tour...
...British people these fulminations seemed surprisingly unsubtle. In the House of Commons Sir Neville Chamberlain said he did not "propose to waste time by commenting at length." That the speech was unsubtle at least in its efforts to pry France from England was proved by the Paris reaction-gay ridicule. Italians were a bit hurt by the fact that over the radio they heard no sound when Ribbentrop praised Italy but a huge cheer when Russia was mentioned...
...German press considered the speech a masterpiece. Deeds, no longer words, would be the order. The Essen National Zeitung gloated: "The moment has come in which the war desired by England must rain down in full force upon the British Isles themselves." But early this week precipitation...