Word: en
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia's Ambassador to Great Britain, amiable little Ivan Mikhailovich Maisky, trotted around to No. 9 Downing Street one day last week to reiterate the Soviet Union's first concrete complaint against British war behavior. On Jan. 13, British warships off Formosa stopped the Red freighter Selenga, en route from a Chinese port to Vladivostok with a cargo of tin, antimony and wolframite (tungsten ore). They took the Selenga clear to Hong Kong for examination, on the suspicion that the metals were destined for Germany via the Trans-Siberian Railway. Last week the Selenga and her cargo were...
...ingenuity in getting Adrian and Carol alone together on the island. Adrian's father drowns; his mother dies of neurosis; his young wife departs to have a baby, decides to stay for good; Carol's ill-charactered father is killed by blacks, who then flee the island en masse...
Because Yale's strenuous Dr. William Lyon Phelps was one hour and fifteen minutes late for a talk on "The Art of Living" before the Tenafly (N. J.) Wom en's Club, he got his fee, $200, plus a polite rebuke, by mail. His apology, a $250 check, received and rejected by the club, was last week in the hands of the Tenafly school board to buy books for the library of the school where the lecture was held...
...En Route. A private car supplied by the German Government. Inside, a crack German photographer who once accompanied Ribbentrop to Moscow, a suave German diplomat who once served in Washington. Also, elaborate trays of hors d'oeuvres, dinner of soup, roast chicken, vegetables, stewed fruit, coffee, and stout German protestations that such was the regular fare. In the U. S. party, enigmatic, icy, shiny-domed Sumner Welles; black-haired, jovial Chief of the European Affairs Division and crack career Diplomat Jay Pierrepont Moffat; quiet Lucius Hartwell Johnson, onetime Welles secretary newly recruited for this trip. Lights were bright behind...
...duties include clerking, signaling, courier service, running canteens. Like the VADS, the gallant ATS come in for a lot of British ragging. Because their daily basic meat ration is 8 oz. (compared to about 3 oz. for civilians), the Daily Express calls them EATS. Because they are invited en masse to Army dances and sociables, their love life is an inexhaustible subject for wisecracks...