Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Favorite dodge of the authors of this spooky reportage was to link their stories to the activities of Otto Abetz, recently expelled Nazi agent, credited with organizing the pro-Hitler "France-Germany Society" and with having directed a pro-German press campaign during the Munich Crisis. Left papers added a new touch by substituting the initials of recognizable prominent Rightists, instead of the conventional Mr. X, as having been caught in the dragnet. As stories grew to first-class scandal proportions, Premier Daladier stepped in, warned newspapers that real or imagery revelations of the Government's press inquiry would...
...heavy Blenheim and Wellington bombers soared out of Midland mists and headed for France. Fully loaded, cruising at 6,000 feet under sealed orders, they crossed the Channel to Le Havre, turned due south. At nine o'clock eight more squadrons of medium Hampden and Battle bombers left England to touch the French coast near the mouth of the Somme, pass west of Paris. At eleven two more squadrons of heavy bombers followed the path of the first. By noon some 150 English warplanes, carrying 400 men, were hovering over France; heavy bombers had passed the steel mills...
After the Berlin trips Count and Countess Ciano went once to Vienna, where they were dined at Schönbrunn and Dr. Kurt von Schuschnigg, last Chancellor of independent Austria, recognized Italy's Ethiopian conquest. From there they went to Budapest, where they left something less than a good impression. The Countess was said to have made eyes at one of the sons of old Regent Horthy. This could easily have been excused, but when the Count and Countess showed up for a hunting expedition arranged by the Regent four hours late with only the excuse they had overslept...
...unfunniest anti-foreign demonstration in Tokyo's history, the leaders, members of the ultranationalist, pro-Axis Black Dragon Society, led the procession to a military shrine. Two hours later the leaders were back to do it all over again for newsreel photographers. When the demonstrators finally dispersed they left a wreath on the Embassy's gate with the inscription: BRITAIN IS DEAD...
...opposite, surrounded by lesser peaks of the Himalayas, gave it far too spectacular an outlook, and no alterations could remove the memories of the women for whom it had been built. Nevertheless, the squat little general's offer was gratefully accepted by an Anglican sisterhood. Why the nuns left before the rains came, Rumer Godden tells in Black Narcissus...