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...much force even limited military intervention would require, Western governments were careful not to imply they were preparing for battle, though France said it was ready to send 1,100 more troops to join the 2,600 it has on duty in Yugoslavia. "This resolution," explained British Ambassador David Hannay, "does not prescribe the use of force. It merely authorizes it as a last resort...
...French. British, U.S. and Russian ambassadors said Iraq must meet all its obligations before sanctions can be lifted. "There is no way for a compromise, "Britain's Ambassador David Hannay said. NATION...
...WHIMSEY TOOK HER Edited by Margaret P. Hannay Kent State University; 301 pages...
...what Henry Ford was to the mass-produced automobile. Everything he started is still going strong, from the cross-country chase in a purring Bentley to the use of arcane skills (like the ability to get along in colloquial Kurdish) to extricate the hero from a sticky situation. Richard Hannay, an ex-brigadier and a onetime mining engineer first seen in The Thirty-Nine Steps, speaks Afrikaans and German, turns out to be a dead shot with a captured Mauser, describes himself as "tough as a sjambok." (Most Buchan readers know what a sjambok is.) Hannay's American crony...
...Greenmantle, for instance, another Hannay pal called Sandy Arbuthnot spurns the passionate advances of a fetching but fell lady spy named Hilda von Einem. "You must know, Madam," he says as bullets whiz about them, "that I am a British officer." Nowadays such behavior is hopelessly out of all fashion, literary and otherwise...