Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...affair surpasses anything that even the most fertile imagination could conceive," cried Paris' L'Intransigeant. "The truth is somewhere . . . but one begins to wonder if it will ever see the light...
...highest-ranking aides were arrested as spies, along with a Red or ex-Red who apparently worked as a double or even triple agent. France's chief Communist hunter was accused of being a Communist himself. Supporters of Mendès-France even implied darkly that the affair was an anti-Mendès plot supported...
...unanimously passed a protest resolution. Victoria and Vancouver newspapers took up the case and began raking the school officials. Shawnigan's governors pleaded a misunderstanding; they decided to invite Dorothy and her father to come to British Columbia at the school's expense to smooth over the affair. Canada's retiring Ambassador to Japan, R. W. Mayhew, offered to let the Hewitts live in his home. A Victoria company cabled offering her fare to Victoria...
...sensation in its day, the confused, controversial Somers affair has never got much notice from historians. Author Van de Water, an interested party (his great-uncle was put in irons aboard the Somers), has briskly dusted off the archives to raise some Caine with the old mutiny...
...Somers affair was officially recorded as a mutiny (the only one in U.S. Naval annals), although a lot of people, including Author Van de Water, are convinced that no mutiny ever occurred. The case forced much-needed Navy reforms. Soon afterwards the U.S. Naval Academy was established at Annapolis to screen and train the officers of the future...