Word: attached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German Military Attaché Franz von Papen was expelled from the U.S. for plotting an invasion of Canada, suborning disloyal Germans and Irishmen, blowing up ships, docks, munitions factories, and workingmen with an inept abandon that even a foreign government's official spy is not permitted to indulge. Ever since then, Americans have followed Papen's activities with a somewhat surreptitious personal interest-like that taken in a classmate who was expelled from school...
...other short stories in the issue, Howard Nemerov's "Gerhart Otto" and Bowden Broadwater's "The Family Round" are both competent, craftsmanlike, and seem to say a great deal more than they actually do. It might almost be worthwhile if the Advocate were to require its authors to attach a short explanatory work to each contribution. This might be illuminating for the authors themselves and for the Advocate staff, as well as for the general public...
Last week, as if to underscore U.S. sincerity, the President prepared to send a top-notch military mission, headed by Brigadier-General John Magruder, to Chungking. A onetime military attaché in Peking, clearheaded, athletic General Magruder is well known in China...
...plot was General Peñaranda did not care to say, but it seemed a good bet that it had something to do with a man who was supposed to be 6,000 miles away, a fire-eating, 36-year-old aviator, Major Elias Belmonte, Bolivia's Air Attaché in Berlin...
Chilean officialdom fumed. In Rio de Janeiro, the news was a bombshell; even the U.S. embassy thought it a mistake. In the lineup outside the Commercial Attaché's door was the cousin of Brazil's Foreign Minister Aranha, wondering why his Navebraz shipping company was listed. Brazilian legalists asked whether Standard Oil's Brazilian subsidiary would sell gas to Condor. If not, would it run afoul of Brazil's anti-trust laws? If yes, would Standard blacklist its subsidiary? In Buenos Aires, annoyed and puzzled businessmen chiefly feared a rise in prices, since German firms...