Word: go
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is a personal postscript to this. Christmas Eve 1922 my father was called to the telephone. A friend asked whether he might bring along for dinner a German here on a lecture tour and stranded on Christmas Eve with no place to go...
...Upon receipt of a reply from Joseph Stalin's stooge, old President Kalinin of the U. S. S. R., Mr. Roosevelt made public his admonition to Russia to go easy on Finland (TIME, Oct. 23). The President of the U. S. in a "personal message"-in the diplomatic scale, one short of formal representation-had simply reminded Russia of 1) U. S. friendship for little Finland; 2) the fact that Franklin Roosevelt got the U. S. to recognize the friendless Soviets in 1933. The President of the U. S. S. R. diplomatically told the President...
...intricate affair sprinkled throughout with "ifs," the treaty provided that: 1) all three nations will go to the others' help in case of war in the Mediterranean; 2) Turkey will aid Great Britain and France in honoring their guarantees to protect Greece and Rumania. Big condition in the treaty was the provision, made in an adjoining protocol, that Turkey would not be compelled to war against Soviet Russia...
...Marchant told of four hits on Royal Oak. After the first explosion, he just had time to get from his hammock to the deck. Then followed the second, third and fourth blasts. Evidently Prien's first torpedo, which he thought hit Repulse (or some other ship*), did not go past Royal...
...whole bow of the ship seemed to go up sky-high...