Word: western
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...official Soviet radio news summaries of proceedings in the House of Commons, pointed omission was made of Winston Churchill's declaration that Britain, France and Russia have a "common interest" in checking German agression. Moscow press and radio descriptions of Allied pulling of punches on the Western Front gave most Russians the definite impression that a truce to World War II was already at hand. Red Fleet, organ of the Soviet Navy, while noting that Britain and France have a superiority in tonnage of 374% over the Reich Navy, argued that German "blows to the British merchant marine...
Fortnight ago, newsmen overseas, headline writers and readers in the U. S. began to understand each other about what was happening on the Western Front. The French were advancing by inches, not miles. Last week, official figures delineated the exact extent of Allied advance in the first four weeks...
Some Lancashire Sam dropped his musket somewhere on the Western Front last week. And by what seemed a mutual agreement with the enemy, no officer pleaded with him to pick it up and get on with the battle. All was quiet. There was here a scouting party, there an exchange of salvos. But even those had an unreal quality. "It is not a very furious war at present," remarked a French officer to a group of newspapermen visiting the front...
...cluster of reporters, "you have seen for yourselves what criminal folly it was to try to defend this city in a military way, and how that defense collapsed after only two days. I only wish certain statesmen in other countries who seem to want to turn the whole of Western Europe into such a shambles as Warsaw could have an opportunity of seeing, as you have, the real meaning...
...telephone. We have good news." When Mr. Drouin came on, Grauer told him: "This is the Horace Heidt program. I am happy to tell you that the sponsors, the makers of Turns, are making you a present of $1,000, and we are sending you the money by Western Union. . . . This is not a joke...