Word: regente
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...dawn one day last month the British submarine Regent slipped past mine fields into the harbor of Cattaro and ran up her largest white ensign. Much to the surprise of Lieut. Commander Peter Joseph Howell Bartlett, the harbor was full of Italian warships. The commander sent his mate to call on the Italian commanding officer. The mate explained that the Regent had come to look for Britain's Minister to Yugoslavia Ronald Ian Campbell, requested permission to search...
Doubtless because he knew the Regent could sink at least one Italian ship in a fight, the Italian courteously granted the request. But courtesy did not imply confidence. To make sure that neither side double-crossed the other, it was agreed that an Italian staff officer should board the Regent as an observer-hostage while the British mate was ashore. For nine hours the Regent lay in Cattaro harbor in what an Admiralty report called "this tense but farcical situation." Then two Italian dive-bombers appeared over the harbor, and at this point British and Italian versions of the incident...
...going to Cattaro, the motorcade proceeded to Gruz, the port for Dubrovnik, 65 miles up the coast. It was waiting on the dock for the submarine to appear when the Italian Army entered the town. Last week the British had a tale to tell about the daring of the Regent, but the Italians had the Minister...
Without forming a Cabinet, he hastily reconvened Parliament, which agreed to everything, promised that the new Iraq Government would respect all treaties, most especially those with Britain. Also rubber-stamped was the appointment of a new Regent, an aging, holy-minded relative of King Feisal named Sherif Sharaf...
...Little Men also promptly joined the grab. Anti-Axis Premier Count Paul Teleki had died by suicide or murder a fortnight before (TIME, April 14) and Hungary lost no time turning its four-months-old non-aggression pact with Yugoslavia into a scrap of paper. Grim, square-jawed Regent Admiral Nicholas Horthy sent troops into Yugoslavia to seize 8,000 square miles of rich cornfields and dairy lands, watered by the Danube and Tisza Rivers, which the treaty makers took from Austria-Hungary after World...