Word: incidentally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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> "Part of the pact by which Stalin has assured his safety-for the time being-is that the Communist Party in America shall be used to foment strikes and trouble when Hitler gives the word. ... A few armed Nazi agents slipped into a crew of strikebreakers and a few Red...
Doubtless because he knew the Regent could sink at least one Italian ship in a fight, the Italian courteously granted the request. But courtesy did not imply confidence. To make sure that neither side double-crossed the other, it was agreed that an Italian staff officer should board the Regent...
El-Gailani's answer to the British was to send a concentration of Iraqi troops to the heights threatening Habbania airport, with an ultimatum to the British to cease all operations there. British Ambassador Sir Kinahan Cornwallis, a six-foot-four, big-boned, two-fisted runner, boxer and marksman...
Sir Kinahan and other British diplomats had no idea what an understatement "unfortunate incident" was. El-Gailani's reply to Sir Kinahan's warning was to send more troops to the heights, where they dug trenches, placed artillery and opened fire point-blank on the Habbania field. The...
There is probably nothing Adolf Hitler would like so much as to be called in to be the savior of Islam. Last week he got his first bid. According to Rome reports, Seyid Rashid Ali El-Gailani asked him, through the mediation of Italian Minister Luigi Gabbrielli, to come and...