Word: nights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Turkey. Lights burned all night in the Foreign Ministry at Ankara, where Foreign Minister Shokru Saracoglu (pronounced Sarro-joe-glue) was preparing to visit Moscow. Announced before Russian troops invaded Poland, the trip grew in importance as the week advanced, as the significance of joint Russian-German aggression swept over the frightened Balkans. A 55-year-old lawyer, nervous, clever, quick-witted Shokru Saracoglu be gan his public life at 40, when Turkey's Kamal Atatürk was consolidating, his power, when Russia on the north was far from strong. A lusty, exuberant Moslem (married, with two children...
...Pasquier Chronicles (TIME, March 21, 1938). In a small office not far from that of Director Jean Hippolyte Giraudoux sat thin, grey-haired Andre Maurois (Ariel, Byron, Disraeli), charged with explaining the value of French culture to the world. In London sat tall, impassive, witty Paul Morand (Open All Night, Closed All Night), professional diplomat acting as liaison officer between the British Ministry of Economic Warfare and the French Blockade Ministry. Pretty, serious, half-Polish Eve Curie (Madame Curie) prepared lectures on scientific subjects for the Information Ministry...
...From the newspaper Der Bund in Berne, Switzerland, came the suggestion that neutrals should clearly define borders by 30-square-foot white markers every kilometre, flooded by light at night. Poor old Geneva, the funeral parlor of international hopes, could not decide whether to clothe itself in black or not. After debate, it was decided to compromise: lights till midnight, blackout after...
...awful night of August 31, the eve of war, when diplomats were making frantic 59th-minute appeals, a wealthy Londoner telephoned his brother in the South of France. Would the brother and his wife like to use the Londoner's private plane to get home? No, thanks, came the answer. For the brother's wife, Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, dislikes airplanes even if they belong to the King of England...
...Portsmouth naval base. Second and third were the Duke's trusted friend and former equerry, Major Edward Dudley Metcalfe, and Sir Walter Monckton. The Duke & Duchess had planned to drive straight to Major Metcalfe's country place, but delay and blackout made them decide to spend the night in Portsmouth with Sir William. That evening, among war bulletins, British Broadcasting Corp. spent exactly ten of its preciously pronounced words on the arrival...