Word: fors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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A disgusted news correspondent at the other end of the line replied: "I'm talking about the King's visit to France . . . officially known to the press for two hours. Don't you know?"
In the farthest north the fate of Petsamo was still in doubt while, to the west, one Russian column pushed southward for an enveloping attack.
Finland's Chances depended on what she was playing for. Failure to crack the Mannerheim Line had already hurt Russia's prestige. (In twelve days Germany had taken every major Polish city but Warsaw and Lwow.) Effective help from Italy, Great Britain and especially Sweden (which was most...
*The Finn gets emotional only after much brooding, and usually without much logic. Today he forgets that under Tsars Alexander I, II and III his people were the best-treated minority in the world. Instead, he remembers the blundering misrule of Nicholas II. Even the fact that in 1918 many...
A shocked voice at the British War Office one day last week gasped: "Are you by any chance referring on a public telephone to the fact that a certain well-known personage has left these shores for a certain destination?"