Word: ishness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When stocky Jessica Cosgrave, who does not look her years (seventy-ish), graduated from Barnard College in 1893, a group of Junior Leaguers asked her to lecture to them on world affairs. She coined the now common term "current events" to describe her subject, soon had to start another class for the girls' mothers. In 1900 she opened a full-fledged school in a Manhattan apartment, named it for her first husband...
...year pact which King of Kings Haile Selassie signed with the Brit ish Government bore little resemblance to Magna Charta. In return for $10,000,000 in cash, the Lion of Judah handed . the British a blank check. According to the agreement, British judges and assessors will sit on the benches of Ethiopian courts, the Ethiopian police force will be officered by Britons...
...importance of a unified command has been demonstrated positively by the Germans, negatively by the British. While the Nazis have moved their forces into battle under one-man control with a minimum of departmental confusion, the Brit ish have been hindered by all kinds of wasted motion, brought on by lack of unity among top-ranking admirals, generals and R.A.F. commanders. At Crete and during the first battle of Libya, there was singularly little coordination of command be tween air, army and naval forces. More recently, in the Far East, the British lack of unified command was demonstrated when...
...veteran of Narvik, Military Cross winner for Commando work in Syria, young Keyes with 30 men made his way to a wadi, near Sidi Raffa, Administrative H.Q. of Rommel's Afrika Corps. Here they lay for two days and nights awaiting the zero hour of the Brit ish attack. When the time came the Commandos daubed their faces with burnt cork, crawled over the desert to the German headquarters building...
...Strong nationalists themselves, the Pol ish soldiers have been quick to appreciate that Scotland is Scotland, not a part of England, and they share in Scottish pride. One Polish lieutenant answered "English slanders" about highland weather: "Actually our Scotland has a better climate than London...