Word: swaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such a fanciful swap could be made-fine! But let no such idea serve Reader Watters as unwittingly callous alibi for not giving to the Red Cross. Twice $20,000,000 would be little enough for relief in Nazi-conquered territory-not only for desperately needed food but for life-&-death hospital supplies. No International Red Cross relief goes to Germany-at the Nazis' own request. Nor should anyone naively imagine that Red Cross relief will break the blockade against Hitler...
...captain. Prince Felix's proudest possession is The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin Roosevelt, personally presented by President Roosevelt last autumn. Luxembourg's canny, genial Foreign Minister Joseph Bech (who resigned as Premier because he thought he had held the job too long), likes to swap stories with newspapermen. The newspapermen like to hang out in chess-playing Herr Klopp's hotel at Remich and watch the Germans across the river...
...French Cabinet crisis-new Premier Paul Reynaud was just about to face risky test votes in Senate and Chamber-was postponed in spontaneous French agreement that now was no time to vote on whether France should again swap Premiers in midwar. Glad that Adolf Hitler had given it the excuse, Parliament went home for a week without voting...