Word: throughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Further information for Army freshmen: "A young British officer knows all his men by sight and name and takes a personal interest in each. If a man is in any private trouble of his own, he has merely to ask for an interview with his officer (through the medium of...
Hazy idea floating through the Prime Ministerial mind seemed to be that the Publicity Department might succeed in convincing the German people there is no encirclement. Those who recalled how British propaganda sold the Germans Wood-row Wilson's 14 points and helped break down their resistance in 1918...
Biggest fish to slip through the Nazi frontier net (in a sealed freight car) was Vojta Benes, brother of ex-President Eduard Benes. Brother Vojta brought some blood-curdling tales from home, where he has been in hiding since Nazis took over.
When Genghis Khan, conqueror of an empire that stretched from Korea to East Prussia, died in 1227, all witnesses of the funeral procession that bore his body home to his native valleys were killed, lest the people learn of his death. As a result, Western archeologists hunted for them but...
Russia, riddled by the purges of the Trotskyite dissenters, was in no mood to fight a Far Eastern war on behalf of the Chinese. Great Britain, strongest European power in the Far East, was hamstrung by fears lest the year-old Civil War in Spain leap its national boundaries and...