Word: suspectedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japan more urgent and more important than the defeat of Germany. The West Coast faces the Orient. Isolationists still nourish their conviction that the U.S. has no business in Europe's messes, still argue privately that anyway Japan is the only one who has yet attacked us. Anglophobes suspect Britain, Red haters fear Russia. The Hearst press has not forgotten the Yellow Peril. Further, a considerable number of sense-making military officers and civilian observers believe and can show that Japan is more dangerous than many Americans realize...
Bulgarian Plots. Last week, London heard rumors that Turkey had declared war on: 1) Germany, 2) Bulgaria. All that happened was that the Turko-Bulgarian frontier was closed and the Turkish press suddenly began to denounce Bulgaria. The Turks suspect that Boris was trying to squirm out of his alliance with Hitler and butter up the Allies; the Bulgars fear that the Turks are preparing to grab off Thrace...
...been advised to love and care for our manuals, "regs", etc., since they will be our constant companions as long as we are in the service. We suspect more changes will arrive just as we finish making the ones we now have. But that shouldn't bother us, after all the Disbursing course is only telescoped to three-quarters normal time. Boy, was Sherman right, or was he right! And to complicate things a little more, there's another Harvard Naval Review coming up on the 27th...
...hired one Akbar Shuja, a citizen of Northern India, for duty at the tea planter's bungalow which serves as barracks for Pan Am pilots there. His job: to lure hooded cobras out of the bungalow's thatched roof. Last week Pan Am began to suspect that Akbar is a slick character; specifically, that he puts the snakes back when the pilots are away, pipes them forth each evening when the pilots return. If Akbar is fired, Pan Am operating costs will drop 30 rupees a month...
...film is subtly anti-British. . . . It conveys the impression that Stalin's foreign policy has always been democratic and anti-fascist and Britain's one of appeasement. One would never suspect that it was Stalin who enabled Hitler to attack Poland, and Chamberlain who came to Poland's Defense...