Word: attached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will never end it successfully if we continue to proclaim it so. We are fighting for the same ends as our allies; it may very nearly be said, for the same ends as our enemies, not to impose different ends. It will do us a lot more good to attach ourselves to these bigger ideals than to keep harping on our separatism. Unless we come to Europe with an understanding of the obstacles to her peace, unless we join with European liberals in overcoming these obstacles, we will never get any basis for a final settlement...
...reporters. He spoke from Rome during the phony war and the first Mediterranean fighting. Last April, kicked out by the Fascists, he crossed to Yugoslavia, just in time to meet the Germans coming in, narrowly missed a grenading by an advance Nazi motorcycle squad, and with a U.S. military attaché drove upstream through the Panzer army to Belgrade. His further progress eastward included a stop in Ankara, a hitch in Syria on the British push into that hellish terrain, and the job of covering the Cretan campaign from Cairo...
...time. But to the Raj, Mahatma Gandhi had some discouraging words to say: "If the Government of India were so confident of the full support of India in the war effort, the logical conclusion would be to keep the civil-disobedience prisoners in confinement. . . . The only meaning I can attach to their release, therefore, is that the Government of India expects the prisoners to change their opinion regarding their self-invited solitude. I am hoping the Government will soon be disillusioned...
...crush at a Turkish People's Party ball the brocaded dress of Mrs. George Eric Mexia O'Donnell, wife of the British Naval Attaché, gaffed the brocaded gown of Frau Franz von Papen, wife of the German Ambassador. Held tight, in the boomps-a-daisy position, the ladies waited in stony silence until a Turkish protocol officer uncoupled them...
Most important gentleman friend was probably German-American Dr. Walter T. Scheele, president of New Jersey Agricultural Chemical Co. He showed young Attaché von Papen how to destroy ships at sea by means of incendiaries made out of a short piece of two-inch lead pipe. These were manufactured aboard the S.S. Friedrich der Grosse (then lying off Hoboken), smuggled aboard freighters by German agents and longshoremen, and went off at sea. They sank some 40 ships in a few months. When he was finally driven out of the U.S., the British stopped Papen at Falmouth...