Word: pawning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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King Defies. Bulgaria, vital pawn in the giants' chess game, entered an uneasy new year. King Boris III, who prefers his English cousins any day to his Hohenzollern relatives, had told Adolf Hitler at Berlin that, rather than see German troops in his peasant kingdom, he would abdicate. Last Week he retired 27 high Army officers who had demanded that Bulgaria join the Axis and, in a stormy session of the Sobranje, Premier Bogdan Filoff silenced pro-Nazi deputies with a defiant "No foreign regimes for Bulgaria." With the arrival of the first Nazi units at the frontier, Bulgarian...
...last June, when Italy entered the war and King Farouk asked Sabry Pasha to form a coalition Cabinet, he had been worried by internal dissension. To begin with, the anti-British Wafdists accused him of pandering to London. The British, also displeased, said he was the King's pawn, and that the King was lukewarm on the war. Then when Italy invaded Egypt, extreme Wafdists accused him of forgetting his words of last August: "Egypt will declare war if her territory or her Army is the object of an attack." Never overly popular except with the King, Sabry Pasha...
Hellas has always been invaded. Since the barbarians carried the centre of power from southern to northern Europe she has been a pawn in all great struggles for power. Salonika is a back door to Central Europe, a jumping-off place to the Dardanelles and the Black Sea. Rocky Greek islands straggle across the Aegean to the shores of Turkey. The Peloponnesian Peninsula lies close to Italy; Crete, halfway to Africa. In this war Greece's fate was settled at Brennero on Oct. 4, when Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini planned their drive to the east. For Greece...
...plot, which you may remember from Miss Sharp's "The Nutmeg Tree," is a set-up for the extravaganza which Miss George dotes on. It opens with her in a bath tub, selling a lot of junk to a pawn broker who stands outside the door. It ends with Miss George, as Sir William's wife, claiming the title of "Lady," rarely associated with her name before. In between Miss George returns to her daughter, whom she hasn't seen since she was three and finds her a prig and just as stuffy and sure of herself as the rest...
...patriots and idealists helped Greece to regain her independence from the Turks, but it was too late to restore her greatness. Poor, shabby Greece was only the empty cradle of democracy. For the last century Greece has maintained a precarious freedom by letting herself be played as a pawn in the game of international power politics...