Word: franco-british
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Bloodletting is nothing new to Odessa. During the Crimean War it was unsuccessfully attacked by the Franco-British Allies in 1854; later it was muffed by the Turks in the Russo-Turkish troubles of 1876-77. In an unforgettable silent film, Director Sergei Eisenstein recorded the Cossack slaughter and pogroms which followed the mutinied battleship's landing (1905) at Odessa's port. After the Bolshevik Revolution the city was in turn occupied by Austrian, German and French forces, and the monstrous General Simon Petlure (whose murderer a French jury in 1926 acquitted and fined one franc) also...
...blow at Italy when World War II began. With Italy out, he thinks, the Allies could have established a Balkan front and kept Germany fighting on two fronts. Instead Weygand's Army sat in Syria, threatening not Germany but Russia. Thus the Fifth Column destroyed France and the Franco-British Alliance, lost the Balkans to Germany, which thereby extended its pincers around Russia for the next move...
...better friend of France ever lived than Sir Robert Gilbert Vansittart, who for more than a generation in the British Foreign Office fought valiantly for Franco-British solidarity. When Neville Chamberlain became Prime Minister in 1937 and set out to appease the dictators, he kicked Sir Robert upstairs from his post as Permanent Under Secretary to a vague something called Chief Diplomatic Adviser to the Foreign Secretary. Winston Churchill brought him downstairs again as one of his key advisers. Last week, as the French colonial armies and fleet joined the Petain Government in surrender (see p. 32) 59-year...
...night before, gangs of young Fa-scisti had roamed the streets plastering walls with posters that announced: COLLAPSE OF THE DEMOCRACIES, INCONTESTABLE PROOF OF FRANCO-BRITISH DEFEAT. In front of the Regina Carlton Hotel in the Via Vittorio Veneto they bumped into two British Embassy attaches and two U. S. newspaper correspondents. One of the Englishmen, Secretary George La Bouchere, started to peel one of the posters from a wall. With that the fight was on. Into the lobby of the Regina Carlton burst the milling group. Correspondent Virginia Cowles of the North American Newspaper Alliance ran to telephone British...
...urge which drives slight, bespectacled Lecturer Knickerbocker, with his shock of wavy, flame-red hair (balding on top), is his belief that this is very much a U. S. war. He makes no secret of his Franco-British sympathies, believes the war may last six years or longer, end in a Soviet Europe. In his first lectures he called for outright U. S. intervention. Now he no longer flatly advocates intervention in his lecture; but in the question period that follows, he generally makes his conviction amply clear. So far he has told an estimated 70,000 people his belief...