Word: spokesmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lowest levels of barbarism. A few days ago a marine at Guadalcanal sought to succor a wounded Japanese, only to be killed by the man he tried to help. Navy pilots, bailing out, have been machine-gunned by the enemy on the way down. Next day, Japanese military spokesmen said captured American airmen, who had allegedly taken part in the April 18 raid on Japan, would be "severely punished in accordance with international law for inhuman acts...
...fight occurred in the President's study. Franklin Roosevelt had called in five farm spokesmen to get their views on farm prices, wages and inflation...
...than to be Adolf Hitler's South African Gauleiter. The other is the Herenigde (Reunited) Party of bald, myopic Dr. Daniel François Malan.* Dr. Malan preaches with pompous eloquence against "British-Jewish" democracy and advocates his own brand patterned after the old Boer republics'. His spokesmen claim that a victorious Hitler would entrust South Africa's government to the Herenigde, as the largest opposition party, but that if the United Nations win the war, Dr. Malan will fight for a republic as did Eamon de Valera in Ireland...
What the People said in the Europe of 1914, in the Europe of 1939, was what the Spokesmen said-and as stirring as were their words, they were words as conscious, as grave, as ordered and educated as those of Edward Gray. No agency existed in the hot midsummer of 1914 to span the teeming continent of Europe to take the pulse of the people who were to be the casualties, the heroes, the victims-or the survivors. No backward look by the autobiographers, the novelists, the poets, could bring clearly into view the first impact of war upon...
...exterminated. He repeatedly pointed to the U.S.S.R. as a Communist peril and an Asian rival to be driven from Japan's ordained sphere. Less often, less pointedly in the middle '30s, when Japan was shaping the final blows to come, did he and other military spokesmen refer to the U.S. as an enemy. But the U.S. never lapsed from their memories and their plans. With delicate foresight and precision, they geared their machine of conquest to strike in any order that world events dictated. As it happened, China was first, the U.S. second in timing. Russia was third...