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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What had happened? About the circumstances of the attack there was little but conjecture. A German U-boat had made the attack - that fact was apparent because the Germans said that one of their U-boats had been attacked by an unknown destroyer. Apparently, too, the U-boat had escaped location of the because the encounter - Germans which gave the would have been a giveaway if they were bluffing...
...foot Persian with hard grey eyes. His name was Reza Khan. The colonel knew him for a brave man and, in a last desperate attempt to keep the brigade together, he put him in command. Had he not done so, the future King of Kings might have died an unknown old horse bully...
...than ever. It was the first anniversary of Marshal Pétain's French Legion-veterans of two wars who support the Marshal. For three days there was Nazi-style mummery. By foot and airplane some 20,000 Legionnaires carried torches, lit from the eternal flame at the Unknown Soldier's tomb in Paris, to many parts of Vichyfrance and the Empire. Finally, in Vichy's stadium Marshal Pétain addressed tens of thousands of Legionnaires. There he pronounced them the one and only political party in France-his own counterpart of the German National Socialists...
This map shows where the Western Hemisphere's only war has been going on during the past fortnight-in defiance of an armistice agreement and unknown to the rest of the world. The Peruvians entered the Gulf of Guayaquil with several ships and planes. Just twelve Peruvian parachutists took Machala and seven took Puerto Bolivar. They kept banging away at the town as they floated down, but stopped when there was no Ecuadorian counter fire. Peruvian troops moved easily across the flat land between the coast and Piedras. In a miniature Blitz they burned farms, confiscated crops, looted houses...
...Duke of Rutland, long known in art circles (by an analogy with Gainsborough's much more celebrated Blue Boy} as the Black Boy. Along with two other valuable paintings-Gainsborough's landscape, The Wayfarer, and a portrait of Charles the Bold by an unknown Flemish artist-the Black Boy came to an unworthy...