Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...connotation of TIME'S report is even more alarming. TIME implies a criminal delay on the part of our Senate while the Baltic states are under invasion. TIME suggests that we could help stop the massacre...
...with the Allies, with a thrust at the Russian oil fields at Baku by Weygand's French, British and possibly Turkish Army, from Syria. Quick action was being urged, said he. because "the present situation in the unpredictable Balkans, and particularly in Rumania, will permit no delay." By Wednesday night, he could see this campaign advancing right to Rumania, "a natural battlefield for open warfare between the mechanized units of modern armies." By Friday, black Balkan headlines had given plenty of point to Editor Williams' Balkan pointers...
Secretary of State Hull had protested in strongly measured language, got no satisfactory answer. To a note in which he conceded the right of the British to search parcel-post packages at Gibraltar but complained that U. S. ships had been discriminated against, subjected to unreasonable delay, he got no answer at all. Last week, banning the shipment of "articles or materials" by air mail, the U. S. indicated that it thereby removed any further excuse for a repetition of the Bermuda incident...
...tweedledum Committee on Foreign Relations, the Senate wavered in such agony as to make the resistance of Finland seem even more heroic than it had seemed before. Statesmanlike solution of Senator McNary of Oregon was gratefully accepted. His proposal: send the letter to both committees. That meant more delay. As the Committee on Banking and Currency prepared to hear Secretary of State Hull's opinion, and as Senator Brown prepared to revise his bill with Administration support, the Communist Daily Worker crowed: "Congressional leaders have gotten a little jittery...
Then Governor Horner postponed the hearing. Then he postponed his decision, announced that he would hold another hearing on Jan. 10. One month after Columnist Pegler's evidence had appeared in print the Chicago Daily News came out with an editorial asking: Why Delay...