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...over C in the International Code of Flag Signals. The N flag is blue-and-white checkered; the C has five horizontal stripes, the middle red, flanked by two whites, the outsides blue. Both are rectangular. The message, in any language: "In distress. Need prompt...
...workers who wanted to know whether they come under the standards, whether the U. S. has another NRA. Mr. Andrews made it clear that: 1) the Act resembles NRA in purpose, is wholly different in method. Chief difference: NRA standards were established and applied (with Federal supervision) by industry Code Authorities, whereas the bases for Wage & Hour standards are written into the statute...
...Communist." Not only does radio permit nation to shout at nation, but radio can also shout a neighbor down. Germany reported a mystery station which blanketed the European air with static during Chancellor Hitler's Nürnberg speech. Similar reports charged German stations with sending out code signals on the Prague wave length to obliterate Premier Hodza's speech. In Germany, listening to Moscow's broadcasts has long been a criminal offense...
...close watchers of European diplomacy in the last few months, the known great number of secret letters, code dispatches and contacts by personal intermediaries which have taken place between The Four Chiefs has made it increasingly certain, month by month, that Europe would sooner or later be offered a sudden and staggering proposed "Solution"- whether or not it be now accepted. Repeatedly correspondents have described Herr Hitler as bringing on the Czechoslovak crisis: primarily to break up the Russo-Czech-French alliance; secondly to get control of the Sudeten Mountains which have barred his "Push-to-the-East"; and only...
...Foreign Affairs, Viscount Halifax. While they lunched, the French and Czechoslovak Governments urgently demanded that the Times editorial be repudiated, and every German paper jubilantly front-paged it as showing the "real mind" of Neville Chamberlain. Viscount Runciman, the British Mediator in Prague, began cabling London heavily in code, was reported threatening to resign. Finally, in the evening, at No. 10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister issued a communiqué: "The suggestion to the effect that the Czechoslovak Government might consider as an alternative to their present proposals (see p. 18) the secession of a fringe of alien population...