Word: reporting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Your very timely coverage of Canada's war effort apparently met with a frigid reception at Ottawa, as the latest issue of TIME has not reached this part of the Dominion as yet. We may be in a minority, but our reaction was that a true report of the activities of our Government was long overdue. There has been a feeling for some time that all was not well in Ottawa despite the fact that the vast majority of Canadians are willing to make any sacrifice to aid the mother country and the Empire...
Though he is usually as sad and quiet as a Chinese willow, the Gissimo sometimes flies into sudden noisy furies. The BBC report threw him into a bad one. He immediately issued an angry statement: "Should Britain try to link the question of the Burma route with the question of peace between China and Japan, this would virtually amount to assisting Japan to bring China into submission." He instructed Ambassador Quo Tai-chi to protest at the British Foreign Office. U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull issued an acid statement declaring that the closure was against U. S. interests...
...situations in maneuvers, called him the greatest U. S. military genius since Stonewall Jackson. Modest George Marshall has been trying to forget this heavy praise ever since. But General Bell was not alone in his high opinion. Able, erratic, spectacular General Johnson Hagood once wrote, on a Marshall efficiency report: "This officer [then a lieutenant] is well qualified to command a division with the rank of major general, in time of war, and I would like very much to serve under his command." "Black Jack" Pershing, asked who was the best soldier in the Army, replied, "Colonel Marshall, of course...
Columbus' brothers, in charge of Española, are by no means trustworthy, his ex-valet Roldan is in open revolt. Columbus himself is arrogantly, piteously aware that there is not a man on earth he can trust. It is Don Narciso's business to report to his King that "the Admiral was not fit to govern a farmyard, let alone an empire." He dislikes his task, but takes comfort in the thought of sailing, on the morrow, for Spain and the quiet life. Kidnapping, hurricane, shipwreck, a Crusoe sequence delay his return. When he finally sails...
...frequent use of the word "alas"). For the remaining 265 pages they may enjoy his style, which is elaborate, delicately colorful, at times moving. His impressions of Angkor Wat in French IndoChina and the Forbidden City in Peking have an atmosphere such as might now be found in the report of a traveler of the Fifth Century A. D. who first examined the ruins of Babylon and then went on to live in the decaying grandeur of Rome...