Word: whethers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whether or not the Kremlin was preparing to take almost defenseless Bessarabia from Rumania like candy from a baby, and regardless of how much truth lay behind sensational reports of joint action in the Near East being contemplated by Russia and Turkey to overwhelm Syria, Palestine and Iraq, it remained an arresting fact that in Moscow the official tone was markedly anti-British, anti-French and pro-German...
...Nazi slogans or posters stuck on during the blackout by the still active underground movement. Presumably the Comintern in Moscow has the names and addresses of the thousands of Communists who, up to the Pact, were determinedly working to overthrow Naziism and betting on war as their best chance. Whether they had quit, or whether they had been turned in by their Moscow bosses, was not apparent. No large numbers of Communists were reported by correspondents to have been seen leaving concentration camps. Still comparatively safe was the active Social Democratic underground campaign, which prudently stopped cooperating with the Communists...
...timber to the British Isles. They promptly cabled to Norwegian, Swedish and Danish shipping firms, offering to charter Scandinavian freighters to carry Soviet timber out by way of ice-free Murmansk and the White Sea to Britain (see map). At latest reports the Scandinavians had not yet decided whether to lease their freighters, and anti-Soviet feeling was running especially high in Sweden...
...return for its unconditional support in World War I, Britain promised India eventual dominion status. When India did not get it fervent Leftist intellectuals were vociferous in exclaiming "Never Again!" The big question last week was whether Nationalist India would or would not support the British war, and how much independence Britain would pay as the price of that support...
When the Cabinet assembled next afternoon, the President, who likes nothing better than to pop a dramatic surprise, was grave. He wanted their opinions, he said, as to whether he should make public the message he had received. He told them what it was. The Secretaries were variously shocked, disgusted, amused. They split, 5-to-5, on whether to make the information public. The President thereupon cast his own deciding vote, told them he had made up his mind: he would tell the people. Later in the day newspapermen were called in and given a bulletin...