Word: iii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...construed as any reflection on President Roosevelt." In Washington, Third-Termers said that Senator Ellender had acted on his own, that an uninstructed delegation from Louisiana was precisely what they wanted. But Little Bull's booing seemed to indicate that for politicos who are on the skids, Term III is useless as a brake...
Vittorio Emanuele III it was who signed that quaint, antique instrument, the Declaration of War, and for his pains was patted on the head by Messrs. Mussolini and Hitler. "I feel the urge," telegraphed .the Fiihrer from German G. H. Q., "to express my most heartfelt greetings to Your Majesty." Signs aplenty had told the Italian soldiers that the hour was at hand. The hour had in fact been at hand so long that some Italians believed the chimes of destiny's clock were out of order. But last week the blowing hot and cold suddenly became...
...Cover) Into the grey Elysee Palace-home in other historic times of Madame de Pompadour, Napoleon I, Tsar Alexander I, the Duke of Wellington, Napoleon III; home now of gentle President Albert Le-brun-strode a onetime Premier of France one morning last week: Pierre Laval, fresh from Rome. M. Laval was grave. He reported to President Lebrun that there was nothing to be hoped for from the hungry Italians. If anyone could wring concessions from Rome, it should have been the realistic co-author of the ill-fated Hoare-Laval Ethiopian Deal; but he might as well have tried...
...there are also quick conferences with State Department chiefs. Languid, shrewd Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins often sits in, listening more than talking, unmindful of smoke curling into his eyes from a forgotten cigaret. When the grandchildren are on a visit, one is usually climbing around the bed (Franklin III or Sara...
...many of his countrymen had been slaughtered he did not know. As Commander in Chief of the Belgian Army holding the Allied left flank, he had seen it beaten back with frightful losses toward the English Channel. On this night the Germans were at the gates of Bruges. Leopold III, King of the Belgians, sent for his Ministers...