Word: portes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Specifically, Russia wanted sole trusteeship over Tripolitania, while the U.S. wanted four-power trusteeship. Russia wanted Trieste for Tito's Yugoslavia, while the U.S. and Britain wanted to leave it to Italy (with the port itself under international control). Russia wanted recognition of Bulgaria's regime, which the U.S. and Britain found unrepresentative...
Under First Mate F. Henry Haas, the Ada Rehan staggered on. At an Arabian port the crew refused to serve further under Haas, but were at last won over. In Khorramshahr, Haas went ashore, came back with a beer-drinking baboon. When the crew tried to cut down the baboon's beer ration, he broke from his cage, bit Haas and splashed ashore. The men organized a safari, chased the baboon and killed...
Into Colombo, Hongkong, Shanghai, the ship nosed her way. Port officials went aboard, came off marveling. By now only a small group of men were trying to maintain discipline. One worried boy moaned...
Duisburg, the great inland port at the confluence of Rhine and Ruhr, had lost a third of its workers to hunger, disease and fatigue. A correspondent reported: "Four [nearby] brothels thoughtfully provided by the Nazis for [the workers'] diversion are still open, but queues are missing...
...summer day in 1853, the port of Uraga was decked in holiday style. Brightly painted, flag-festooned screens lined the shore of lower Tokyo Bay. Soldiers paraded in burnished armor. Elegant emissaries of the Mikado in exquisite brocades, and velvets turned out to greet Commodore Matthew Perry as he debarked from the U.S. man-o'-war Susquehanna...