Word: exception
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Senate a bill to "give vitality to the rights of free speech and assembly . . . which have been denied by private spy systems and by private force." They proposed to ban i) spying on labor; 2) professional strikebreakers and strikebreaking agencies; 3) armed, private guards anywhere except on company property; 4) the private possession or use of such industrial munitions as machine guns, sawed-off shotguns, gas bombs...
Ireland's hatches were thus battened about as tight as they could be, except for one factor-the outlawed, extreme-nationalist I. R. A. Nothing short of the unification of all Ireland under its own brand of fascism suits the hotheaded Irish Republican Army, which maintains a complete underground government (and constitution) of its own. Since 1938 its 7,500 youthful members (plus 15,000 fellow travelers) have followed the wild-eyed, bomb-Britain policy of 46-year-old, super-radical Chieftain Sean Russell. There is reason to believe that the intransigent I. R. A.-sters are getting money...
Correspondents were leery of the Chicago Tribune's Alex Small, called him "a human albatross." Since the day he arrived in Toledo, Spain in 1936, every warring city to which Newsman Small has gone has been bombed a few hours later (except Brussels, bombed a month after Small got there). As he passed through Lille and Tournai last fortnight, they were bombarded. Nazi planes followed him along the roads. Said another newsman, when he arrived in Paris last week: "Get the hell out of here, Alex, or we'll be bombed." Immediately sirens began to wail an airraid...
These cables, two from Geneva, the last from Paris, arrived last week in the Manhattan office of the World Council of Churches. They had been sent by a Dutch, a Swiss, a French leader of the Council, to which belong 63 churches of every variety except the Roman Catholic. Replied the Council's U. S. committee: WE EXPRESS OUR HORROR AND INDIGNATION. . . . WE ARE CALLING UPON OUR FELLOW CHRISTIANS IN AMERICAN CHURCHES TO LEND ALL HELP AND SUPPORT IN THEIR POWER TO OUR BRETHREN IN ALL CHURCHES OF EUROPE SUFFERING FROM...
...have heard the news. Paris has been bombed. It was no surprise to Paris, whose heart and spirit are equal to anything. Except on the very spots destroyed, life goes on as usual. The day was hot and beautiful. We first head the sirens and the anti-aircraft guns, then the noise of German bombers in the sky. There were heavy crashes, and the sound of the fire-engines. To many of us this was no new experience, but a reminder of twenty-five years ago. In June 1916, when I was in Dankerque, we had six or seven alarms...