Word: answer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Oswald Garrison Villard, onetime publisher of the New York Evening Post and The Nation, is 67 years old, but when he went to Germany last October he nervily decided to answer the Nazis' "Heil Hitler!" with a "Heil Roosevelt!" Nobody gave him the chance to make such a retort. In fact, Mr. Villard reports in an 86-page booklet, Inside Germany,* just published in London, almost no one except Party members and officers in uniform now gives the "Heil Hitler!" greeting...
...three days Stockholm awaited Russia's reply to the Swedish protest. A hard answer might bring war. Nobody realized this more clearly than Joseph Stalin. When the answer came, it was a formal apology...
...Generalissimo's answer: phooey. The Chinese Government recognized the Japanese accent in Wang's polite phrases, and the semi-official Chungking newspaper Ta Kung Pao retorted: "Even if you can arrange a puppet reign, Wang, can you stand a single blow from our iron fist...
...greatest gifts to the U. S. is Professor Hans Albrecht Bethe of Cornell University. A brilliant theorist in atomic physics, modest, demure Dr. Bethe probes straight to the core of an abstruse problem, then brings to bear on that core his remarkable mathematical equipment so that the answer comes leap ing out like a weasel out of a smoked hole. Educated at Kiel, Frankfort and Munich, Hans Bethe, whose mother is Jewish, was holding a post at Munich when the Nazis came in. He left Germany in 1933, taught and researched in England for a while, went to Cornell...
...White House conferees, all this called for more child help from the U. S. Government. They plumped for a glittering, 83-point program: Federal aid for schools, libraries, medical care, playgrounds, housing. They were only momentarily discouraged when President Franklin Roosevelt, addressing the conference, declared: "The permanent answer is not mere handouts from the Federal Treasury but has to be solved by improving the economics of the poorer sections. . . ." As the conference closed, Secretary Perkins prophesied: "The program . . . is one which I predict will be worked upon . . . for 30 years to come, when a new generation, pray God, is better...