Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even as the Foreign Minister traveled through Germany on his way back, an anti-Polish Nazi diplomatic and press barrage was going full blast. A Polish-British treaty, said Herr Hitler's diplomats and newspapers, would be considered an unfriendly act against the Third Reich. Furthermore, the signing of such a treaty was likely so to incense the Führer that, instead of asking merely for the return of the Free City of Danzig and a road across the Polish Corridor as he is now doing, Aggrandizer Hitler would raise the ante and want Polish Silesia, a slice...
...Times and Telegraph & Morning Post obediently printed no word of the speech. The Daily Express carried the speech for one edition, then wavered and cut it out altogether in a second, in a third merely hinted at it. The Daily Mail first quoted Lord Stanhope's words, then withdrew the quotes but not the story. Only the Liberal News Chronicle decided to publish story and quotes. The news was a shock to the public, an alarming indication of how close the Government believed war might be and how unheralded its arrival...
...named Lop popped up with an infallible secret formula for peace, which he refused to reveal unless elected. A druggist from the small fishing port of Honfleur arrived at Versailles covered with medals, brandishing a pistol, demanding admittance to the Palace to make a speech on his qualifications. A third was an old-timer with sweeping grey mustaches, fiery eyes and the extraordinary name of Monsieur Cochon...
Three other of Pan-Am's 314s were in service this week, two on the Pacific run, the third on the New York-Bermuda route, operated by Pan-Am alone since the crash of Imperial Airways' Cavalier (TIME, Jan. 30). The Easter rush of Bermuda vacationers set an airline record: the Bermuda Clipper carried 60 passengers on each of three north-bound trips...
Divorced. Sacha Guitry, 54, French actor-author-director; by Jacqueline Delubac (Isabelle-Jacqueline Basset), his third wife and leading lady; in Paris. Grounds: desertion. Sacha Guitry's other two marriages were also to his leading ladies (Charlotte Lysès, Yvonne Printemps); both also ended in divorce...