Word: harbor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public and his colleagues may both awake in time. American public opinion is due for an "abrupt change some time in the near future if the present crisis continues. Changes of this type have been instituted by disasters such as those which occurred at Lexington, Fort Sumter and Pearl Harbor." The U.S. must not wait. "If the impending change in public opinion hinges upon such a disaster," Seitz warns, "it is clear that events may have advanced to a point where defeat is certain...
...impeccable German. The one-man reception committee for the first German ship to visit the U.S^ since 1941 was Detlev Friedrich Achaz, Reichsgraf und Graf von der Schulenburg, 40, a newcomer to the U.S. himself. He is the first fully accredited German correspondent in the U.S. since Pearl Harbor. Reporter Schulenburg, already "Schuley" to fellow correspondents, is stationed in Washington and represents Deutsche Press Agentur, biggest news agency (500 papers) in Western Germany...
...Communists were waiting. Students and workmen, carrying the gold-starred flag of Ho Chi Minh's Moscow-backed guerrillas, marched on the harbor crying: "Down with American aid!" Before they reached the docks, the marchers were turned back by truncheon-swinging native police. Then the march turned into what the Communists wanted-a well-planned, carefully supervised riot...
...September 1939, with a proclamation that began: "We, Salote . . ."). In the spring of 1942, U.S. troops went ashore on Tonga with orders to "take the island and destroy the enemy." The invaders were met by a group of friendly Tongans who explained that they had heard of Pearl Harbor long before, had promptly tossed all of the islands' 100-odd Japanese into jail in the capital city of Nukualofa. Later, thousands of other Allied soldiers stopped off at the Tongan Islands on their way to & from the Pacific battlefronts. During this time, Queen Salote wisely instructed her people...
Francis T. Spaulding '17, dean of the Graduate School of Education from 1936 until 1942, died Saturday in Center Harbor, New Hampshire...