Word: torch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...signing was a notable triumph for the moderation of Dutch Acting Governor General Hubertus van Mook and Indonesia's common-sensical Premier Sjahrir. "On Indonesia," said Sjahrir to his people, "we are lighting a small torch, the torch of humanity. Let us take care of it. Let us hope it will mark the beginning of lightness all over the world." Five days later he left for the Inter-Asian Conference at Delhi. At the Hague, two hours after the pact was signed, a newly convened Parliament promptly ratified it by a vote...
...sang a handful of French torch songs, she tore at her blue-black hair, embraced an imaginary lover, went through the motions of strangling herself in one ballad, dropped to the floor in another (after supposedly swallowing poison). The crowd in Manhattan's Cafe Society Uptown loved every minute of it. Her one song in English, Hands across the Table, still carried a Paris label; despite three engagements in the U.S. before the war, she had been careful not to learn English too well...
...been souped up for popular appeal, North African Waters makes fascinating reading. The narrative repeatedly slows down to take aboard tables, charts and technical details. More informal books-e.g., Ernie Pyle's Here Is Your War-give more colorful pictures of life on the Operation Torch convoys, and still others (since this is a naval history only) deal more fully with the beach fighting and the land battles. But no other book shows as clearly what a slam-bang gamble the invasion was, and how easily-and tragically-it might have gone to smash...
...Torch convoys were already at sea when Montgomery threw his punch. Two British convoys proceeded through Gibraltar unscathed, and it was not until Nov. 7 (the day before North African Dday) that U-boats attacked. As for the U.S. convoy, it was first attacked by U-boats 48 hours after Dday. The richest, most obvious submarine target in history, much of it at sea for weeks, was totally missed by German Intelligence...
Then the affair, after flashing briefly like Isolde's torch, flared out. But Cléo still had her art. After World War I, she retired, gave dancing lessons to the daughters of French aristocracy. In 1938 she returned to the stage to dance a few steps in a show called Revue...