Word: spokesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mood of the British people is one of patient determination to win the war. Underlying it are many other contributing moods held by varying classes and factions. The free people of the United Kingdom last week found significant spokesmen to express three of their varying moods as World War II entered its fourth month...
Noteworthy it was that the Deputies made a big distinction between Daladier the Premier and Daladier the War Minister. Only praise was found for M. Daladier's conduct of the war. Party spokesmen from Socialist Léon Blum to Royalist Xavier Vallat applauded the War Minister's report of France's part in the conflict, cheered when he warned that should the "enemy Führer" order the bombing of French cities (as has recently been threatened by the German radio), the French "will return blow for blow...
...rosy, reciprocal glow. In October Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas complained in a letter to Mr. Hull that the proposed Argentine trade agreement would injure the U. S. farmer and cattleman. Last week he got back a restrained but politely savage answer that it was "folly compounded" for farm spokesmen in the light of the Smoot-Hawley tariff experience, "still to cling to the delusion that the farmer has something to gain from embargo or tariffs...
Meanwhile, the peace appeal itself got less than nowhere. The press and unofficial spokesmen of both sides gave it perfunctory respect. Then, after a decent five days, King George VI and President Lebrun gave it the works...
...Spokesmen for the H.T.D.C. (Harvard Thanksgiving Day Committee) jubilantly interpreted this move on the University's part as a concession to their demands that every man in the University have perfect freedom in deciding which of the two disputed days he wishes to worship as his Thanksgiving...