Word: iii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dark-haired, dark-eyed Imogene was the bride of young Major George Stevens III. She had come to New Canaan because that was where George's parents lived. George, an officer in an airborne division, had to go overseas. Imogene settled down in a brown-shingled little house next door to the Charles Miltons on decorous East Maple Street...
Europe's most explosive crisis last week was in Belgium. The man who might detonate it. King Leopold III, was in St. Wolfgang in the Austrian Alps. Reports that he might come home sent angry citizens swirling through the streets, shouting: "Down with Leopold!'' "Hang the King!" Defiant Walloons (French-speaking Belgians) threatened to bar his reentry into the country with their bodies. Socialist Premier Achille van Acker threatened to resign if King Leopold set foot on Belgian soil. There were rumors that Britain might intervene to restore Leopold to his throne...
...Leopold III, King of the Belgians, suddenly recovered his health. From Salzburg he sent word that he was coming home. Since Socialist Premier Achille Van Acker's Government had virtually barred the sovereign's return (TIME, May 21), Leopold's decision plunged the nation into a constitutional crisis...
...supporting the invasion, had become the subject of rumbling & mumbling in Washington. Homer Bigart, conscientious front-line correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune, had kicked off with a dispatch from Okinawa, suggesting that Tenth Army tactics had been ultraconservative, that the campaign might have moved faster if the III Marine Amphibious Corps had been used last month for an end-run landing in the south, behind the Jap lines, instead of being thrown into a power drive at the Shuri line alongside the Army's XXIV Corps. Columnist David Lawrence picked up the cry and shrilled about...
...London sources, had found out that Stalin was worried, too. Stalin had gone all out for cooperation with capitalist countries; the build-up of Yalta and Dumbarton Oaks in Russia would make a shift embarrassing. The Russian people certainly did not want to contemplate the prospect of World War III. Maxim Litvinov, who represents those Communists who believe in cooperation with capitalist democracy, was pointedly brought from his obscurity to attend a Moscow dinner for Hopkins...