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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britons, toasting each other at home or dancing in their favorite nightclubs, it was a strange celebration in a stranger time. Britain's Prime Minister was spending the last hours of 1941 in a train en route from Ottawa to Washington. Aristocratic Anthony Eden, the Foreign Secretary, was just back from a conference in the Kremlin. The ghost of Neville Chamberlain might well have rubbed its eyes...
...bespectacled Colin MacDonald, the London Times's Far Eastern Correspondent, was in Hong Kong en route to Chungking when war broke out. Hong Kong-Chungking air service was interrupted...
...struck the first U.S. blow against Germany (Minister to Bulgaria George Howard Earle, whose weapon was a bottle in the face of a German) arrived in Istanbul last week, en route home with his staff...
...Turkey, German circles whispered that the German colony was evacuating en masse. Turkey stood squarely in the way of what seemed the most logical German drive: toward Suez, the oil of Iraq and the Caucasus, and the eastern relief of the Axis in Libya. There were constant reports of German massing in Bulgaria, just across the Turkish frontier. The Allies were alarmed by reports that Turkey, on peaceful assurances from Germany, had signed a treaty with Germany and Bulgaria calling for the rebuilding of bridges across the Turkish-Bulgarian border which had been removed during Germany's Balkan advance...
Incoming passengers on the American liner watched the planes swoop down over Pearl Harbor and Hickam Field, commended the U.S. Navy's thoughtfulness in staging a big-scale war game on Sunday morning. An American automobile salesman, en route to Tientsin, gawked admiringly as a bomb whooshed into the harbor a scant 100 yards away: "Boy! What if that had been a real one?" The perspiring ship's officer who finally broke the bad news flubbed his lines: "It seems there's a state of undeclared war between Honolulu and the United States...