Word: words
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Similarly, if TIME insists that the Japanese call their mountain "Mr. Fuji" [TIME, Aug. 21], it might as well say that the Japanese call "God" "paper" and "paper" "God" simply because the two words are homonyms (along with the word for hair-all being transliterated as kami...
...only Messrs. Hull. Murphy, Woodring, Edison and Ickes were at hand) had been caught off-base with the rest of the world by the Hitler-Stalin deal, the sudden push for Poland. When President Moscicki replied to Mr. Roosevelt that Poland was willing to negotiate, Mr. Roosevelt forwarded that word to Herr Hitler, but without much hope of getting action. Berlin's unofficial comment was that Mr. Roosevelt's words had, as usual, arrived when Der Führer was asleep...
...world, aghast, looked for a clause, a phrase, a word that could be interpreted as a loophole. Even the German-Italian military alliance, reported Paris-Soir's authoritative Foreign Editor Jules Sauerwein last week, contained a clause in which Germany promised to make no war for three years. By contrast the phrasing of last week's Pact was as inescapable as handcuffs...
...party in his glittering new Chancellery, Adolf Hitler surprised diplomats by having a long, amiable talk with Russian Ambassador Alexei Fedorovich Mere-kalov. Hitler speaks no Russian, the Ambassador little German, but they understood each other better than anyone realized. Thereafter, the Goebbels Press & Radio ceased their gutter-word attacks on Joseph Stalin...
...Hore-Belisha, he summoned Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet from vacation in the country, closeted himself once more with his generals. To M. Bonnet he gave the job of checking with France's allies, letting them know that this time France meant business. To his generals he gave the word to man the Maginot Line...