Word: bismarck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aussies used to think that they had a protecting screen in the islands which lie off Australia's northern and eastern shores: New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, the Solomons, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia. But in Japanese hands these islands could be either invasion steps toward Australia or walls between Australia and the U.S. If Australia is thoroughly walled in, the Japanese can take their time about invading it and turn against India or Russia...
...well known that the British have an effective short-wave device for locating planes at night or in clouds. Less well known is the fact that the Germans have a locator equally effective. The German device worked perfectly on the U.S. Catalina patrol bomber which spotted the Bismarck last May: the bomber had been followed through the clouds by radio detection from the German battleship, and the instant the plane appeared it got such a hail of ack-ack fire that it had to retreat...
...some news value in this period . . . must we have his photograph always before us? You have given us, at short intervals, Hitler gazing dreamily into the future, Hitler heiling with the hand, Hitler beaming costively at his vice-hitlers, Hitler staring severely at the camera, Hitler looking like Bismarck, Hitler looking like Chaplin, Hitler looking like Hitler (my least favorite impersonation, but how well he does...
Yellow Lava. When the Allies divided Germany's Pacific empire after World War I, Australia shared New Guinea half-&-half with the Dutch, also got the neighboring Bismarck Archipelago and renamed its chief islands New Britain and New Ireland. Similarly mandated to Australia were the nearby, seemingly insignificant Solomons. Japan got the Marshalls and the Carolines. All the mandating powers promised not to fortify their new protectorates...
...British Embassy the presents piled up: crates of eggs, of oranges, mince pies, pecans, a box of onions, a bag of lima beans, two bottles of Napoleon brandy, 5,000 cigars, a set of corncob pipes, catnip for the Churchill cat, a field hat worn by Prince Otto von Bismarck, a wool afghan, a Shriner's hat, silk scarves, gloves, ties, socks, a sweater, a towel bearing the Union Jack, a framed list of U.S. Presidents, a copy of George Washington's will, a painting of the Great Seal of Ohio, a pair of spectacles, a textbook...