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...Point-Blank...
...Read in the Washington Post an article by his biographer, handsome Ernest K. Lindley, quoting point-blank un-Rooseveltian answers to point-blank political questions by a Democratic stalwart (supposedly South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes), who was fed to the gums with the Term III mystery. Mr. Roosevelt was interested to read that he had said flatly: he would not run again unless the Germans overrun England; that Cordell Hull is his choice for successor, is safe, can be elected; that the Vice Presidency lay between Bob Jackson, Paul McNutt, Burt Wheeler; that Jim Farley would...
...measure of the personal independence she was to demand, the young Queen refused point-blank to allow her Prime Minister to write her first public speech...
...Provided." In Berlin, the Foreign Office persistently pooh-poohed the idea of an invasion of either country. When, however, Nazi diplomats were asked point-blank to reaffirm Germany's respect for Belgian and The Netherlands neutrality, they simply pointed to previous declarations, in which Germany had agreed to respect Belgian and Dutch neutrality provided the other side also respected it. That did not necessarily mean a great deal...
...First Soldier of the Reich claimed that he "endeavored to restrict aerial warfare to objectives of so-called military importance, or only to employ it to combat active resistance at a given point." (For photographs and an accompanying eyewitness account of German restricted aerial warfare see p. 45.) Lie No. 3: All objective reports of the last days of besieged Warsaw agree that the Germans refused point-blank to allow the garrison to evacuate non-combatants from the city. Herr Hitler's variorum: "Sheer sympathy for women and children caused me to make an offer to those in command...