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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long halls and nobody pays attention. Officers in mufti scarcely glance at his tall, lean figure, a trifle stooped; preoccupied clerks with sheaves of papers do not even look up as he goes past. In the Air Corps section on the third floor he waves a hand at flier friends, flashes a white-toothed grin, heads for his office. Hour after hour he sits earnestly in an endless succession of technical conferences, usually breaks the day to lunch with a friend or two at the staid Army & Navy Club. There, too, nobody pays attention...
...canvas-covered truck, parked in front of the Morrow home in Englewood, drove away hastily when it attracted attention-police later discovered that it contained movie photographers. Finally on a December night in 1935 Charles Lindbergh and his family left the country. When they were at sea, his friend "Deke" Lyman of the New York Times broke the story of their exile. The U. S. press heaped ashes on its head, too late...
...half until Lindbergh, his face frozen in the glum glower into which it falls when he sees a news camera, showed himself. The photographers were naturally resentful, but Lindbergh did not know about the ball, did not know the ship had docked because he was talking to his friend, Dr. Carrel...
President of the Board of Trade Oliver Stanley and Sir John Simon, an appeaser from way back, swelled the chorus, but the strangest note was struck by Sir Francis Lindley, onetime Ambassador to Japan, longtime foe of Soviet Russia, stanch friend of and host to Mr. Chamberlain. Sir Francis told the Conservative Party's Foreign Affairs Committee that British prestige would rise if the projected pact with Russia fell through...
...thick a fog as the Kremlin. But two mysterious talks of the Pope with British Minister to the Vatican Francis D'Arcy Godolphin Osborne, a talk with German Ambassador to the Vatican Carl Ludwig Diego von Bergen, two "very important" talks with Dictator Mussolini's friend Father Tacchi-Venturi, two meetings of the Sacred Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs in the office of the Papal Secretary of State, hinted how seriously the Holy Father had buckled down to the task of preventing an Anglo-Soviet Pact...