Word: orders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Civilian penetration of naval and military affairs has so far raised less dust around the Navy Building than in the War Department. Big Navies are of necessity non-isolationist, and the U. S. Big Navy was already being made to order when Franklin Roosevelt began to do over U. S. foreign policy. The Army's Chief of Staff Malin Craig is an isolationist of the first water, genuinely believes the U. S. Army should be fitted to the minimum necessities of simple defense. Charles Edison's good friend, Assistant Secretary of War Louis Arthur Johnson...
Appeasement, obviously, was in order. Prime Minister Chamberlain, the Great Appeaser, deciding it might be a good idea to have a heart-to-heart chat with the real article, imported two burly miners named Scaife and Spouge from Yorkshire. As soon as they reached London, Scaife and Spouge made a beeline for Madame Tussaud's waxworks to get used to rubbing elbows with the great. At No. 10 Downing Street that afternoon they rubbed elbows with 400 non-waxwork lords, ladies, ministers, M.P.s. Scaife told the Prime Minister that before he left home his granddaughter had asked: "Will Hitler...
...Precedent was broken even at the Pope's death, perhaps by his order. Cardinal Pacelli omitted the age-old ceremonial of tapping the Pontiff's forehead with a silver mallet, while calling him by name, to make sure he was dead. †Meaning: badly dressed...
Interregnum. From the moment when Cardinal Pacelli declared the Pope truly dead, a new order, rigidly governed by ancient protocol, was in force in the Vatican. Cardinal Pacelli, now Camerlengo (Chamberlain) of the Holy Roman Church, was given the Ring of the Fisherman from the Pope's finger. Placed in a red silk bag, the ring was later broken, as symbol that there was an interregnum in the affairs of the Church. Aside from Cardinal Penitentiary Lauri, in charge of the Pope's funeral, and Camerlengo Pacelli, administrator of the Church and head of the approaching conclave...
...Professor is laid in an imaginary small country suggestive of Austria on the eve of Anschluss, Czecho-Slovakia on the eve of Munich. Professor A., greatest living authority on Sophocles, is a democrat who, in order to quell a riot of Fascist and Red students, reminds them that Socrates...