Word: london
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believes that in his foreign policy he has made but one bad blunder: withdrawal one year ago of U. S. Ambassador to Germany Hugh Wilson. Mr. Roosevelt regards Ambassadors as reporters, doesn't like the second-hand reports now coming out of Berlin to the U. S. via London and Paris. The Kremlin, he well knows, would not care a fingersnap if Mr. Steinhardt were recalled, and then the U. S. S. R. would indeed be an insoluble mystery...
...Approved a note sent by Secretary Hull to London, asking the British Government not to apply to U. S. ships and goods the British blockade program. The document, purely a matter of form, will halt no British seizures, but aids establishment of a base for later damage-delay claims...
...Apprehensive lest they be made the victims of the fanciest sort of diplomatic feint, in London and Paris Lord Halifax and Premier Daladier sat tight, kept their guns trained on one enemy at a time-the Nazis. There would be plenty of time to see if an amazing double cross was the beginning of an entirely different crusade, a fantastically crooked diplomatic square dance with everybody suddenly changing partners...
Late in 1918, shortly after the Armistice, a young Finn appeared in London, sought out Herbert Hoover, then chairman of the Commission for Relief in Belgium, and appealed to him for food for his starving, war-torn country. Impressed by the facts presented, Mr. Hoover not only arranged to get hold of the food, but persuaded the Allied powers to relax the blockade still being enforced in the Baltic to allow the food to be shipped in. It was a life-saver for the nation in its struggle against the Reds...
Home Secretary Sir John Anderson, a tight-lipped disciplinarian with a hard but twinkling eye, perfectly appreciates that the moderate whoopee requirements of Tommy Atkins on leave are all but irrepressible. Last week Sir John continued to maintain a firm laissez-faire stand toward London night life despite a great twittering of complaint from the shires that today night club "harpies and hussies" are again preying on the morals and emptying the purses of apple-cheeked subalterns...