Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Swedish Authoress Posse went to join her Czech fiance, Oki Brazda, in Rome in the spring of 1915, Italy was still officially neutral. Miss Posse had trouble-getting through Austria, but she got there. Then Italy declared war and Czechs, being officially Austrians (though most of them hated Austria) became enemy aliens. Authoress Posse married her Oki. followed him to exile in Sardinia, where he was interned. Sardinian Sideshow is the interesting, lively, not too personal account of the year they spent there. Not being considered at first an enemy alien herself, she made a trip to Rome...
During the War it was General Smuts who lined up South Africans, whether English or Dutch blooded, to fight for the Empire. Recently the General, a persona] friend of King George and of potent Englishmen galore, has insisted that South Africa must patriotically join Mother Britain off the gold standard. Last week Judge Roos asked General Smuts to join him, proposed that they found a "Coalition Party" to overthrow the Hertzog Cabinet...
General Smuts did not join Judge Roos last week, but mere talk that a Smuts-Roos coalition might be formed started a frantic rush on South Africa's Reserve Bank. In three days nearly $14,000,000 in Union pounds was either presented for exchange into Union gold sovereigns which the populace hoarded or transferred into accounts abroad. This catastrophic drain meant that the Reserve Bank's gold reserve of $55,000,000 would be exhausted in a few days. With urgence if not fear in his voice. Reserve Bank Governor Johannes Postmus told Premier Hertzog that something...
German Editors raged. The loan agreement, they recalled, pledges Austria not to join Germany in an anschluss (union). That was why Frenchmen, who want above all to keep Austria and Germany apart, voted as they did. "Chancellor Dollfuss of Austria," stormed Berlin's Deutsche Rundschau, "will figure in history as the Judas of the Germanic cause...
Though her tale is tangled, the plot of the story is simple enough. Two girlhood friends. Marta and Pauline, not yet apparently fat but obviously fortyish, have for-gathered in Paris. Russ, an old pal, a U. S. businessman stationed in Antwerp, squires them through Belgium, hopes to join them for a few days in England. But business keeps him in Antwerp till Pauline's boat has sailed, so he keeps the date with Marta alone. They have a mildly amorous affair, with no strings attached, and part, perhaps forever. All the time, however, they are really in love...