Word: enigma
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...diplomats with being one of the most brilliant practitioners of her craft of her age. Though never publicized, Kollontay had much to do with the Finnish-Russian peace of 1940. With her superb intelligence and with her charm, she helps the Scandinavian countries to deal with the Kremlin enigma...
...DIED A LADY-Carter Dickson-Morrow ($2). The death pact of an erring English wife and her actor lover presents choleric Sir Henry Merrivale with an enigma that he solves (from a motor wheel chair) with his notably vociferous logic...
...most influential and one of the least understood figures in our literary scene. Certainly the readers of "Ulysses" far outnumbered those who have any claim to understanding it, just as the parlor critics of "Finnegan's Wake" outnumber its readers. A critical work on this major enigma of our time is therefore particularly welcome, and especially when it comes from the pen of Harvard's most brilliant and penetrating critic...
...Prime Minister Churchill suggested a military conference in Moscow than Dictator Stalin accepted and announced that he was making arrangements as fast as he could.* At once Japan, which has spent the past months unable to make up its mind about anything, found itself faced with a new enigma-Vladivostok. Probably U.S. supplies for Russia would be routed to Vladivostok. The Japanese General Staff began to see possibilities of an Allied pincer threat toward Japan based on Vladivostok and Singapore. As of last week, the Japanese did not know the answer...
When Germany struck at Russia last week, the war's last major military enigma but one (Japan) was cleared up. Nevertheless most of the world wondered what the rest of the world would do about...