Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what the Allies have to say a Turkish mission headed by General Kiazim Orbay left for London, reputedly to demand that if Britain and France want Turkey to stand with them they must furnish her at once with large supplies of tanks, planes and artillery and must agree to support the Turkish currency-a clear case of Oriental blackmail...
...week, is a tall, thin officer of infantry in World War I: Captain Basil Henry Liddell Hart, 43, D. S. 0. V. C. Few weeks ago Captain Liddell Hart suffered a nervous break down, retired to the west of England, resigned his job as military expert for the august London Times...
When a citizen of London hears stealthy footsteps in his pantry, finds his drawing room in flames, or stumbles over a body on the stairs, he knows precisely what to do. He picks up the nearest telephone, dials 999, and waits for help to come. For number 999 on London's exchange brings policemen, fire engines, ambulances...
...morning last week when the staid London Times turned up at breakfast with these cryptic numerals above a report of the previous day's debate in Parliament, every good Londoner got the allusion. Britain's bungling, War-born Ministry of Information was still being lambasted in the House of Commons. And the Times head was a plea for help from baffled editors whose effort to get news from the front had been balked by official red tape...
...days earlier London's press campaign against Perth Control (TIME, Sept. 25) had come to a climax when the Evening Standard printed an editorial in which it accused the Ministry of harboring political jobholders without news experience. Said the Standard: "It is staffed to capacity three or four times over, but stuffed with incapacity. We are not fighting the big Hitler on the Rhine only to set up little Hitlers here...