Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What if Signor Emanuel should be shot as a spy? But the queasy fears of Rome correspondents on that score were scotched by a Government spokesman at Italy's Foreign Office who grimly remarked: "The only thing that saves Emanuel from being shot in the back as a traitor is the fact that Italy was not at war at the time of his arrest...
...what virtually the whole European Press was saying, namely that 147 British warships anchored on Italy's war flanks meant in substance: "Stanley Baldwin is out for Benito Mussolini's hide and that means the Dictator is through." This British massing of war boats, the Italian Government spokesman pointed out, was ordered by London on its own, has never been requested or endorsed by the League, and occurred prior to sanction activity. If it, too, was electioneering, II Duce was prepared to stomach a good deal, but he blazed at Sir Eric that from London there...
Thomas William Lamont, longtime partner & spokesman of the House of Morgan, addressed to the New York Times a column-long letter in refutation of the current thesis that his firm's financial enlistment with the Allies helped mightily to draw the U. S. into the War. Taking off from a repetition of that thesis by R. L. Duffus in a Times review of Harold Nicolson's biography of the late Morgan Partner Dwight Morrow (TIME, Oct. 7), Partner Lamont argued...
Having quit the League of Nations two years ago, Japan was ready for anything. Said canny Foreign Office Spokesman Eiji Amau last week, "Japan will not obstruct the League of Nations. . . . Our attitude toward sanctions will be decided by Japan's interests and her policy as a whole...
...generation that stumbled into a slightly intoxicated maturity in the early 1920's found in F. Scott Fitzgerald a spokesman who dramatized their emotional problems, made articulate their aspirations, and told some excellent stories while doing so. Last week the publication of John O'Hara's second novel made him the strongest candidate among U. S. novelists for the part that Fitzgerald has vacated by growing out of the ranks of the young. A more impressive and ambitious volume than Appointment in Samarra, his first novel, Butter field 8 suggests that John O'Hara is well...