Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The U.S.S.R. made major note of a minor mishap to the late Maxim Gorky. The weekly Literary Gazette recalled that in 1906 Traveler Gorky was thrown out of a Manhattan hotel when the Imperial Russian Embassy announced that his woman companion was not his wife. Furthermore, the Gazette snarled, his...
Died. Field Marshal George Francis Milne, Baron Milne of Salonika and of Rubislaw, 81, onetime Chief of the British Imperial General Staff (1926-33); after long illness; in London. A veteran of Kitchener's campaign in the Sudan and a general officer since 1913, doughty old "Uncle George" served...
Like a timid swimmer dabbling his toes in the sea, Britain has hesitated to work for full economic, political and military union with Western Europe. The familiar warmth of the imperial sun that never sets felt too cozy to make a plunge attractive.
The police-state mentality, which the Communists have carried to systematic lengths beyond Heinrich Himmler's sadistic dreams, has sent tens of millions to die in Russian labor camps ; it has reduced the Russian people to an inarticulate mass of helplessness ; it has, in the last three years, fastened...
For the first time in more than 400 years, the 60,000 Greeks of the Dodecanese* had something to cheer about. They packed the festive, narrow streets of their medieval capital city of Rhodes as a Greek destroyer, escorted by U.S. and British destroyers, nosed into the mountain-rimmed harbor...