Word: request
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...unwittingly callous alibi for not giving to the Red Cross. Twice $20,000,000 would be little enough for relief in Nazi-conquered territory-not only for desperately needed food but for life-&-death hospital supplies. No International Red Cross relief goes to Germany-at the Nazis' own request. Nor should anyone naively imagine that Red Cross relief will break the blockade against Hitler...
...sporting event spoke last week in Washington. Before the Senate Naval Affairs Committee appeared Colonel Frank Knox, a veteran of World War I, publisher of the Chicago Daily News, the Republican whom President Roosevelt had asked into his Cabinet to become Secretary of the Navy. He was there by request, so that the committee could judge for itself whether he was a warmonger. To committeemen he said...
...Arsene-Henry's misfortunes began immediately after France's request for armistice. The Japanese Army spokesman in Canton said that if French Indo-China refused to "reconsider herself" on the matter of sending munitions by rail into China, the Imperial Army would "undertake to wean Indo-China away from hostility to Japan." M. Arsene-Henry, who understood the meaning of that "wean," who also well appreciates the classical Japanese conceptions of fact and fiction, flatly denied that any arms were going from French Indo-China into China (although two-thirds of China's war supplies have gone...
...beast jogged, followed by a caravan of 100 cars. Duke-ridden by a no-lb. jockey the first 14 miles, a lighter boy the next 14, and finally a little girl - was trotted for eight minutes, walked for four and rubbed down every ten miles at the request of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The doctor, who fasted for eight days prior to the race to "get the poison out of his system," had no S. P. C. A. to protect him. He just loped along, stopping now & then for orange juice or an oily rubdown...
...Harvard, meanwhile, undergraduates and alumni began their commencement and reunions under agreement (at President James B. Conant's request) to avoid war arguments. They knew well that many an alumnus bitterly resented Harvard undergraduate pacifism. They listened politely to Secretary of State Cordell Hull as he called isolation "dangerous folly" at an alumni gathering, to Class Orator Tudor Gardiner (a Porcellian) as he declared: "America must not again be dragged into the anarchy that is Europe...