Word: ony
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When I Became King." Last week's melancholy debate was a sort of rehearsal for a big African conference to be held in London this September. Already, the vanguard of the African delegates had arrived. He was the Honorable Oba Aderemi, the Oni of Ife, whose 3,200,000 Yoruban subjects in Nigeria call him "The Fountain of Honor." The Oni sprayed good will around London, gave a fatherly pat to his youngest subject in England (see cut), and reminded Britons that for twelve years he was a railway clerk, signalman and traffic instructor. "I had to give...
...committee would no doubt probe thoroughly was the break ing of coded Japanese messages and the information they gave the U.S. high command before war began. Among the witnesses are Admiral Theodore S. Wilkinson, chief of the Office of Naval Intelligence in 1941; Captain Alwin D. Kramer, also of ONI; and various decoding and radar officers...