Word: statements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...read a brief statement in your valuable weekly as I returned from Chicago and was surprised that one of your writers would say I was ill dressed in Berlin [TIME, March 14]. While I am not an advocate of time-wasting performances, I was as well dressed as any of the other diplomats-not in Hitler uniforms of course. Not only so; my clothes fit me as well as anybody could wish. How such a view as was expressed in your journal...
Throughout your Tom Mooney account (TIME, March 21) you imply that there is a studied, histrionic quality in his behavior (apparently confusing Mooney with Muni). In the penultimate paragraph you dispense with implications and make the blatant statement that "Mooney ended ... as usual with a burst of tears, finally recovered enough presence of mind to pose," etc. Does this mean that a man who has not the tact, or art, to conceal his emotion on his respite from prison cannot seriously be considered a victim of injustice...
...Morgenthau, knowing that silver and politics have been well-mixed for over half a century, was playing innocent-as he was last week when he refused to confirm the obvious fact that he was now mixing silver and oil. For the wording of his statement made it perfectly clear that he had withdrawn his subsidy in retaliation for President Cárdenas' seizure of $400,000,000 worth of foreign oil investments (TIME, March 28). The action had been taken, said the Secretary, "in view of the decision of the Government of the United States to re-examine certain...
...recognize Adolf Hitler's annexation of Austria last fortnight, the State Department has been pressed by liberal and racial groups to think up a practical way to express the U. S. Government's disapproval. Last week. Secretary Cordell Hull thought he had found one, gave out a statement describing...
...purpose of facilitating the emigration from Austria and presumably from Germany of political refugees. Our idea is that, whereas such representatives would be designated by the Governments concerned, any financing of the emergency emigration referred to would be undertaken by private organizations within the respective countries." The statement added that the committee would in no way interfere with work on the same problem currently being done by existing agencies; and that no country would be asked to receive more immigrants than its current quota laws permit. Invitations to help set up the committee went to Great Britain, France. Italy, Belgium...