Word: answer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Answer: Germans did in the Rhineland occupied areas after the Armistice in World War I. I happen to know because I was the American Representative on the Rhineland Interallied Military Commission that provided food for the civilian population...
Remember that this was written about the first World War, and military science has certainly not grown simpler since then. To bring the bickering about conscription down to earth, the real question seems to be whether or not we will engage in war under any conditions. If the answer is in the affirmative (and I think no one will claim otherwise), is it not merely simple logic to provide ourselves with the most perfect military mechanism we can devise? To do otherwise is to butcher innocent boys when war does eventuate, as Hitler so clearly points out. . . . We must choose...
Said Willkie: "I put this up to the President now and I hope that he does not answer with any quip about how Wendell Willkie loves property and he loves humanity. I say, without any personal criticism of the President, that it has been his good fortune at every stage in his life to possess and enjoy more wealth and more income than I have. This is as true today as it was in the past...
...handsome, mustachioed David Niven. Loudest blast of the debate came from London last week, where British Producer Michael Balcon snorted "deserters" at the "scores of producers, directors, writers, artists and technicians who have migrated to Hollywood and Manhattan since Munich." Next day came Hollywood's concrete answer: $6,-000,000 worth of British talent, including such performers as Madeleine Carroll, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, Charles Laughton, Basil Rathbone and Greer Garson, would star in the production of a picture called The Rafters Ring, 75% of whose proceeds would be donated to British war relief...
Paunchy, sloppy, nervous and absentminded, he sits in an enormous office, his pince-nez suspended on a black ribbon, ashes all over his vest. Before he has finished his cigar, he starts sucking a cold pipe, then returns to the cigar. He speaks into an intercommunicator, gets no answer, shouts at it, then finds he forgot to turn it on. Chuckling and giggling, he delights in whimsies, fables and gags of the sort that baffle most businessmen, some of whom think he is insane...