Word: faits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plot. The trip, through air in which Axis planes roamed, over waters infested with Axis submarines, was veiled in secrecy and censorship: its story was presented to the world this week as a dazzling fait accompli. Even then many of the details were kept secret. Franklin Roosevelt, for the first time since he rushed to Chicago to accept the Democratic Presidential nomination on a windy July day in 1932, had traveled by plane. But how and when were not revealed...
Stockholm reports said last week that Foreign Minister Scavenius had negotiated Denmark into the Anti-Comintern Pact behind the backs of sad King Christian and other Cabinet members. When he produced his fait accompli, they at first refused to add their signatures. Then Foreign Minister Scavenius called their attention to the scowling face of Adolf Hitler...
...whether Prince Paul knew about it and yielded in advance, or whether he was told of a fait accompli, only the conspirators knew. There must have been a dramatic scene in the White Palace sometime during the early morning. Later in the day it was reported that Prince Paul had been arrested at Vinkovici, near the Hungarian frontier. Still later he was reported in Greece, either a hostage or a hideaway. What was important was that Paul was gone. At dawn King Peter issued his proclamation...
Rumor of the nasty affair came first to the CRIMSON and from there spread to amazed and unsuspecting Bellboys. Asked for a comment on the unhappy "fait accompli" Joseph P. Lyford '41, chairman of the House committee, commented: "Sour grapes and infants! Everything happens...
Three weeks ago Germany tried to fake a fait accompli. Berlin newsmen reported that the Storting had met, declared King Haakon "no longer able to function" and appointed as "Regent Without Portfolio" Ingolf Elster Christensen. The Norwegian Government in London promptly replied that Haakon had not been deposed, that the Storting had not even met. Christensen, it explained, had held the same post since the collapse of Naziphile Quisling's self-appointed premiership in April. With the consent of King Haakon he was still heading the Norwegian Administrative Committee, which acts as a sort of loose civilian government under...