Word: falling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...other country the fall of a Cabinet in war time is a major crisis. In France it is bad enough. But Frenchmen who in peacetime think no more of yanking a Premier than Americans think of yanking a pitcher out of the box, were not unduly upset-not even when a report got about that the Cabinet had fallen because one box of ballots had accidentally gone uncounted. Already those in the know had heard who the next Premier would be: Paul Reynaud, brilliant Finance Minister, considered No. 2 in the Cabinet of which Edouard Daladier had been...
...Single aim: to conquer." The Chamber was restive as the new Premier entered to present the aims on which his Premiership would stand or fall. Seeking to warm up the Deputies, he hailed "the flame of Jacobin patriotism which animates Daladier and which is the soul of the country." Daladier meanwhile was being cheered in the Senate, but neither house showed enthusiasm for the short, characteristic Cabinet declaration of Paul Reynaud which he read in four minutes flat. Keynote: "My government has but a single aim-to conquer...
...failure of the Allies to prevent Finland's fall was one sentimental reason that the Daladier Government fell sympathetically last week (see p. 20). In Great Britain, too, the Finnish post-mortem continued, but with a difference. On the strength of it the Chamberlain Government was described as "riding a bull market." Far from condemning what Britain had done and left undone for brave little Finland, from an unexpected source, the Labor benches in the House of Commons, M. P. Josiah Wedgwood rejoiced: "If it were not for the greatest piece of luck this country...
...promised the British Ambassador to Germany, Sir Nevile Henderson, that, if Germany and Great Britain went to war, his Air Force would bomb only military objectives. Wise Sir Nevile reminded him that because of the speed and height of modern aircraft, bombs aimed supposedly at military targets might easily fall in residential London. Sir Nevile added that he would object to being hit on the head by any such present from Hermann Göring...
...foreigners who have met him have failed to fall under the spell of Göring's gusty charm. In that he has served Germany well. Joachim von Ribbentrop (whom Göring hates) keeps relations smooth with Russia. But in Italy, where Germans are not too well liked, it is Göring who keeps things running with the Mussolinis. (He named his daughter after Edda Ciano.) Neutral diplomats prefer to talk to Göring, rather than to listen to Hitlerian tirades. And the fact that the British Foreign Office always found him willing to listen accounts...