Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Of Soviet War Commissar Kliment Voroshilov, soon to visit Berlin, Il Corriere Padano cracked: "If Lenin first, and Stalin afterward set eyes on him, it was simply because they judged him an exceptional gangster. For us, Voroshilov and his equals, like all carrion of Bolshevik Russia, do not interest us...
News From Rome, the famed one-sheet poster newspaper of the Fascist Party, is pasted up weekly on walls all over Italy, claims 30,000,000 readers. In copies reaching the U. S. last week, News From Rome exhorted: "Don't whimper if you lack coffee. Be thankful that...
The body politic needs a good purgative once in a while, but last week Japan's nearly got an overdose. For three days it looked as if 113 members of the Foreign Office Staff-all but the Vice Minister, four bureau chiefs and a handful of clerks and translators...
Sept. 22, 1914 was a dark day for the British Navy. Three cruisers, Hogue, Aboukir and Cressy, were patrolling off the Dogger Bank, near Ymuiden. High seas raged in the wake of a storm, forcing the cruisers' protecting screen of destroyers to scuttle for home. The Admiralty figured that...
If the theories of the late great Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan are correct and World War II is one more struggle between sea power and land power, as the War went into its seventh week the fighting continued almost entirely in the sphere where the Allies are proportionately strongest-on...