Word: post
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...follow-up story the next day, the Post's correspondent added vivid but violently partisan details...
...newspapers is a little section called "Ten Years Ago Today," summarizing 24 hours of news of a decade ago and making them sound more remote than the wars of the Medes and the Persians. Because London newspapers are older than most, their memories are longer; the Daily Telegraph & Morning Post carries a department called "150 Years Ago" whose items are generally scarcely more interesting because of their greater antiquity. But in the past few weeks this section has begun to relate some strange doings in France. Thus, in a dispatch dated July 6, 1789: "By intelligence from Paris . . . we learn...
...attentive reader of the Post 150 years ago could readily have guessed that all was not well in France. Convulsions, havock, intrigue, were leading up to one of the biggest events that a newspaper ever covered: the fall of the Bastille and the beginning of the French Revolution. Last week, while the 150th Bastille Day was being exuberantly celebrated in Paris, the Daily Telegraph & Morning Post reprinted its admirably terse, vigorous, 150-year-old eyewitness report of the original event...
...training. Few of the 30,000 20-year-old militiamen - first of 200,000 drafted-had ever been away from home for more than a fortnight, found little heel-clicking or saluting at camps, were informally introduced to their officers, given a razor, shaving brush, comb, toothbrush and a post card, ordered to drop their families a note saying they arrived safely...
Like many another Italian War hero, young Dino Grandi had turned to the post-War Fascist movement to satisfy an acquired taste for action. He rose fast and, as Chief of Staff for the Quadrumvirs, stage-managed the March on Rome and Mussolini's meeting with King Vittorio Emmanuele III. In 1929, when he was 34, Dictator Mussolini promoted him from Undersecretary to Minister of Foreign Affairs...