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...Victory. Many statesmen had played their parts in Belgrade's coup d'etat. Winston Churchill had done much by risking an expeditionary force in Greece while Yugoslavia wavered. "Early this morning Yugoslavia found her soul," said Winston Churchill fervently. The U. S. had also played a part, by passing the Lend-Lease Act and promising aid to Britain's allies, and President Roosevelt made this promise stick in a message of congratulation to King Peter. Russia had helped, by pledging neutrality to Turkey if Turkey should be attacked, thereby suggesting to Turkey the advisability of a treaty...
...York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia was once U. S. consul at Fiume, was once official interpreter at Ellis Island, speaks eight languages. Morning after the news of Belgrade's coup d'etat, he paused in a turmoil of annual budgetmaking, announced in spotless Serbian: "Zora puca bit ce dana!" (The dawn is breaking...
Called back to Berlin in 1930, he accepted a five-year contract to make three pictures at a salary of $1,000 a week. This was automatically broken after the Nazi coup d'etat. His last film, titled "Thirteen Valises of Mr. O. F.," was made with Hedy Lamarr, then a comparatively unknown actress called Hedy Kiesler. Although he was only nine years old at the time, Marc says he thought Hedy was a "very beautiful woman, though a trifle too exotic...
...State was ever launched in the modern world with so little convocation of popular opinion as L'Etat Français. There are no posters in unoccupied France, except those left by the withdrawing Germans stipulating the number of francs (20) exchangeable for a mark. The Government radio works only sporadically...
Nazis Nervous? While the Czech rebellion was being crushed, underground reports from Germany proper suggested some Nazi nervousness lest a revolution or coup d'etat be attempted by Germans to secure a new Government-possibly monarchist-with which Great Britain and France would be willing to make a quick peace on favorable terms. Scions of the Habsburg and Metternich houses were mentioned as the object of active German intrigue and Adolf Hitler was said to have summoned former German Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm for a conference at the Chancellery which became highly emotional...