Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...figure. He built a huge fortune out of Albanian land grabs, corporation shares and the earnings of the Ciano family newspaper, Il Telegrafo. He got his job by marrying Mussolini's viper-lean, predatory daughter, Edda. He was one of the original promoters of the Berlin-Rome Pact. He also strongly urged the Italian attack on Greece...
...religious philosophy at Jena, then got sidetracked into journalism and radio. He scored many radio scoops during ten years as NBC's European chief. He was the first broadcaster from Nazi-occupied Paris, from the Zeppelin Hindenburg over the Atlantic and the first to send the Munich Pact text...
...British homes but it tidied up British thinking. It gave the British an idea of what they wanted. Last week they hoped that "the most important and dramatic announcement" of World War II would come out of the Roosevelt-Churchill conference in Casablanca. When they found no Four-Power Pact had been formed, no evidence of a United Nations grand strategy council, no inspired program of joint political action, Britons wrote off the conference as just another meeting between their good friend Franklin Roosevelt and their old war horse Winston Churchill. A wit cabled that popular response to the conference...
...Anthony Eden is a stubborn man, and one who tackles first problems first. Last spring he tackled the problem of British-Russian relations and, against some violent opposition in his own Party, emerged with the pact that was signed in May. This week London reported that Foreign Secretary Eden was planning a trip to the U.S. to tackle the many political problems Roosevelt and Churchill left unsolved...
...DIED A LADY-Carter Dickson-Morrow ($2). The death pact of an erring English wife and her actor lover presents choleric Sir Henry Merrivale with an enigma that he solves (from a motor wheel chair) with his notably vociferous logic...