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...Asfa Wassan's skirmishers, disappearing over the mountain top. Dessye was deserted. An exhausted runner had just arrived from Gerado with news of an advancing column of Italian cavalry followed by tanks, motor trucks. They could only be a mile or two behind him. Just at dusk the Crown Prince came down from his mountain hideaway on muleback to pack his personal belongings at the old palace. At the first bursts of rifle fire on the outskirts of town, he scuttled back to the hills. Correspondent Steer and the British major waited no longer. Loading four Seventh Day Adventist...
...Berlin, Adolf Hitler closeted himself with Joachim von Ribbentrop and Foreign Minister von Neurath, stewed over the White Paper most of a day and a night. Next afternoon von Ribbentrop and his aides appeared at Templehof Airport with a locked briefcase, boarded a plane, landed at dusk in London, where a "No!" but not a flat refusal to negotiate was expected to come out of the briefcase. It was understood that the German counterproposals would be amplified "orally...
...Windsor the Duke of York was dropped with the Duchess, who was ill with influenza, and Edward of Wales drove on through gathering fog and dusk to Buckingham Palace where the Duke of Gloucester was sitting up with a sore throat. The two brothers spoke briefly. It would have been traditional had the Prince of Wales officially summoned the Prime Minister to come...
...dusk on the night before Christmas Sara, in her grandfather's lap, rode across to La Fayette Square in the big Presidential limousine full of Roosevelts. From her place of honor she stared back at the holiday crowd while Grandfather Frank-lin lighted Washington's National Community Christmas Tree, but she paid more attention to the flashlights of photographers than she did to grandpaternal words of holiday cheer...
...characters were as varied as Angna Enters' or Ruth Draper's. In a severe black cloak she was a tortured Yemenite youth wailing to God to take away his sadness. Just as surely, she was a voluptuous young Spanish girl wandering wistfully in her garden at dusk, an Arabian merchant comically scorning the Jews, a Felahi shepherdess who lost her pet lamb and joyfully found it again. Deeply stirring was her impersonation of a Persian woman possessed by grief and awe as she swayed over her father's tomb. Never did she make her audience feel...