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...very pleased with the way things are going. Vickers' shares are up 20%." MacDonald: "Incidentally, 20% of the niggers died on the way across. What a droll coincidence!" Working overtime last week was Germany's English broadcaster Lord Haw-Haw, tentatively identified as William Joyce, Anglo-American-Irish fascist (TIME, March 11). CBS listeners picked up a typical Haw -Haw news bulletin following the Scandinavian invasion (see p. 19): "The New York paper, Evening Star,* writes: that it is learned that British troop ships with several divisions aboard have left England and were at present on the high...
...just writes out a telegram and sends it. This is done by embassy secretaries who code all important dispatches. It was certainly queer that somebody handed in at Paris an uncoded telegram signed Jacob Suritz, addressed to Joseph Stalin, and congratulating the Dictator upon having foiled "plans of the Anglo-French warmongers" and "sinister schemes of enemies of Socialism" by worsting Finland. Whoever sent that undiplomatic telegram into the teeth of French censorship knew the French Cabinet must inevitably demand the recall to Moscow of fallen Litvinoff's friend Suritz...
...week's end the Anglo-Italian coal issue was sharing press headlines with the Finnish war (see p. ig). In Florence students demonstrated in front of the British Consulate. In Rome six additional police guards were assigned to duty around the British Embassy. In London everyone sat tight but in Kenya Colony, which borders Italian-held Ethiopia, troops massed on the Ethiopian frontier. In Berlin Foreign Minister Ribbentrop took a special train for Rome. Then Britain exposed her hand...
...Churchill. The note: "You can show it to Winston if you like." The rhyme: "My U-boats are under the ocean, My Graf Spee is under the sea, My Hitler is in a commotion, Oh don't mention Winston to me." Proud Papa Shakespeare read it at an Anglo-American Community Chest luncheon Representative Charles Albert Plumley of Vermont told the House of Representatives that he was "astounded" when he saw a picture in LIFE of Admiral James Otto Richardson, Commander in Chief of the U. S. Fleet, with an autographed photograph of King George VI at his elbow...
...Churchill. The note: "You can show it to Winston if you like." The rhyme: "My U-boats are under the ocean, My Graf Spee is under the sea, My Hitler is in a commotion, Oh don't mention Winston to me." Proud Papa Shakespeare read it at an Anglo-American Community Chest luncheon...