Word: spokesmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British complacency was perhaps unjustified on other grounds. German Army spokesmen hinted that the pause was not enforced but deliberate. "You may be sure," said one, "that there is a plan; also that the German Army doesn't rush into adventures, a policy which eliminates to the greatest degree humanly possible any chance of failure." The plan was perhaps to wait until British troops were evacuating Greece, then try to greet them in Alexandria. But plan or no plan, the week's developments pointed up the Libyan campaign as definitely more important to Britain now than the outcome...
Thus the U.S. assumed a virtual protectorate over Greenland. It acted under the Monroe Doctrine, which forbids the transfer of territory in the Americas from one non-American power to another. In Berlin, Nazi spokesmen muttered about taking appropriate action. In Copenhagen the Danish Government, under Nazi pressure, disavowed the agreement, protested, ordered Minister de Kauffmann's recall. Minister de Kauffmann paid no attention...
...German spokesmen also predicted surprises as a result of Japanese Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka's visit to Berlin (see col 1). But in Berlin, as in Rome, it was admitted that U. S. aid to Britain would probably prolong the war. One German broadcaster verified Germany's concern and coined a phrase in the same sentence: he called President Roosevelt "the hangman of the young nations...
...newsmen gaped, moved on to the City Hall. There, in a reception room decorated with jonquils and tulips, on a long oak table were spread calf-bound records, property deeds, Great-Grandfather Willkie's will. Their significance, according to Nazi spokesmen: they prove that Willkie is "a liar." Aschersleben's city archivist, Prussian-headed little Rector Goapka, launched into the story of his Willkie research. He made a big point of the four spellings of the name he found in church and city records: Willke, Willcke, Willeke, Willecke. "But," said he, "the name was never Willicke, as Herr...
...Railroad spokesmen have repeatedly affirmed their readiness to handle any foreseeable defense traffic. But the prospect of extraordinary wheat loadings, on top of the industrial boom, has caused some Midwestern roads to look around for a hedge. Third week in February, car-loadings on the Kansas City Southern ran 25% ahead of 1940, on the Frisco and St. Louis Southwestern 20%. Others felt the abnormal rush for coal, U. S. freight item No. 1. New York Central and Baltimore & Ohio, both big coal carriers, moved more freight that week than during 1940's traffic peak in October...