Word: bosphorus
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Debaters were discussing Germany's war guilt and U.S. intervention in Central America. In December, Professor Harry Barnes of Smith told a crowd at the Union "Russia's desire for the Bosphorus was the cause of the war." The debate team, secure in their temporary safety, beat Dartmouth, arguing against co-education. "Here we pursue knowledge," said E. M. Rowe. "There they pursue women." Over at Radcliffe they just smiled...
Titular Rank. Finally at week's end came an announcement from the Vatican: Archbishop Charbonneau's resignation-had been accepted "for reasons of health" and he had been named titular Archbishop of Bosphorus...
...staged a May Day demonstration of its own. While Russia paraded its armed forces across the Red Square, the U.S.S. Leyte nosed into the Dardanelles, crossed the Sea of Marmara, anchored in the Bosphorus. Behind her trailed the cruiser Dayton, the destroyers Purdy and Bristol. The flagship Dayton fired a salute. Turkish shore batteries replied. The Turkish Government considered the U.S. visit purely routine. Said the U.S. Navy: it was simply paying a social call during a break in training exercises...
This bit of news aroused men in a dozen nations, from the Italian sailors who pondered serving under Stalin, to the Turks who wondered if the U.S. were going to press for Russian access to the Black Sea through the Bosphorus. Frenchmen, Yugoslavs and Greeks suddenly realized that they, too, had a claim to some of Italy's ships. But for once Franklin Roosevelt had scooped Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin on a big piece of news...
...mistreated Fuad's first wife (Ahmed's sister), shot him in the throat, so that the King ever after half-coughed, half-cackled. Ahmed cracked rocks for three penitential years, was then deported to an English asylum, escaped after 25 years, has since lived quietly on the Bosphorus...