Word: welleses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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2. Facing the possibility of a quick British defeat, the U. S. in August: 1. Fortified Bermuda. 2. Sent Sumner Welles abroad on an appeasement mission. 3. Transferred the battle fleet to the Atlantic. 4. Started negotiations with Canada for military cooperation. 5. Began fortifying the Canadian border.
At naval and private docks in South and East Boston, workmen repainted the hulls, painted out the names (but not the U. S. Navy numerals) of other ships of the same class. Hustled aboard were oil for an Atlantic crossing, reportedly full stores of 21-inch (British-size) torpedoes for...
To the British, who have a poetic feel for names, the rechristening of the destroyers became an immediately grave question. One suggestion was that they should bear names of British West Indian islands. A typically British sour note was struck with the suggestion that they should bear the names of...
Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier, whose "perfect romance" was marred only by the fact that each was married to someone else, finally married each other last week (see p. 38). Mickey Rooney received a new contract from his studio allowing him $100 a week for pin money, $900 for living...
> Sumner Welles, Acting Secretary of State, announced-in his own inimitably impersonal language-that the U. S. will no longer accept as accredited representatives of foreign countries any agents to whom other American nations have seen fit to give the boot.