Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moving of the British into the front lines was good news for many French soldiers, who muttered that the English would now earn their pay. Although the British nave made much of the fraternizing of the two Armies (one journalist said he gained the impression of "something that was nothing less than brotherliness between the French and English soldiers"), reports from the French Army have been different. One French soldier, on leave in Paris, told of numerous fist fights, not only between individuals but between groups of French and English. Chief gripe of the French is that the English...
...trade in his time, and his naivete serves to reveal truths subtler than he suspects. A man who can pay tribute to his wife as "the best helpmeet with which man was ever blessed," who can affectionately reprint his own editorials and funny stories, who can, in the Southern journalist's equivalent of Arthur Kober, refer to a "floundered" submarine, speaks from the photographic heart of what his time and environment have made him, and is incapable of going wrong. Even such a wowser as: "Whatever else North Carolinians stand for or do not stand for, immorality...
...Italy's resignation from the League because of sanctions voted during its Ethiopian campaign became effective early this week. Last week Italian Journalist Virginio Gayda, curiously enough, wrote that Finland had the "right to demand and expect sanctions" against Russia, but scornfully added: "The slave State of Ethiopia did not have that right, for it was guilty of 30 years' aggression against Italy as well as of the most brutal violations of civilized principles." †Switzerland has notified the League that meetings can be held on its territory only if the present war is not discussed...
...meaty article on the daily life of a cinema star, an Earl's daughter, an Indian Raja. On sale in the U. S. last week was the latest U. S. edition of London's Picture Post (dated a fortnight later than the British edition), containing an English journalist's solemn pictorial record of the life of an average New Yorker...
Picture Post's reporter was a pale, cadaverous Briton named Douglas MacDonald Hastings, who last spring spent two weeks in Manhattan with a cameraman. According to Journalist Hastings, an average New Yorker lives in suburban Larchmont, "goes up to work" on the subway. His grandfather was a German immigrant: "where he came from nobody knows...