Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...OBJECT TO YOUR CALLING A EUROPEAN WAR A WORLD WAR. CONSIDER THIS FIRST STEP TOWARD A REAL WORLD WAR. LET'S CONFINE IT TO EUROPEAN NATIONS...
...press conference in the President's oval office, a correspondent asked how far U. S. territorial waters (i, e., maritime frontiers) extend toward Europe. Hot off the bat Franklin Roosevelt answered: as far as U. S. interests require them to go. "Does that reach the Rhine, Mr. President?" Franklin Roosevelt tossed his head and laughed. He was, said he, talking only about salt water...
...George ("Geordie") Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duke of Sutherland, big-gaming, yachting, land-rich peer, who abandoned a Kodiak bear-hunting junket, headed his yacht Sans Peur (Without Fear) toward home and war service...
...hope for a short war faded last week, wishful thinkers turned to a fresh hope that might bring about war's end: the internal collapse of Germany. Outside the Reich, newspapers carried dispatch after dispatch pointing toward such a possibility. From Zurich came reports of rioting in Essen, Cologne and Dusseldorf; from Amsterdam a report that 500 Gestapo agents had been sent to put down strikes in the Krupp works at Essen. In Austria, Tyroleans were reported to have distributed 1,000,000 leaflets saying: "Hitler leads us to catastrophe-we want peace." The slogan, "Down with Hitler! Down...
...Toward week's end, CBS, MBS and NBC got together, agreed to "edit" the news (i.e., avoid repetitive bulletins, pair up varying reports, sift announcements from foreign radio stations). CBS decided on at least two foreign hookups a day, interruptions of programs for big news only. NBC planned to use its men abroad on a newly announced schedule of war news periods only when they had something to say, began to scout around for correspondents in neutral European capitals, in the hope of getting uncensored news...