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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week came explanation of a mystery which had puzzled the U. S. Maritime Commission and the U. S. State Department: where was the Commission's freighter City of Flint, which cleared New York City for Manchester on Oct. 3, and never arrived? One of her passengers, James G...
What made Teutons fear and Gauls love Sir Eric Phipps was his wit, as dark and quick as sparkling Burgundy. One night while he was in Berlin, Field Marshal Hermann Göring arrived at an Embassy party late and breathless. Bowing deeply, Göring roared: "I have just...
Whether or not the details of these dispatches were accurate, they all added up to one conclusion: Russia was acting on some understanding with Germany to the effect that she should have a free hand aiding China against Germany's erstwhile partner. And they further suggested what Russia might...
An air of gathering crisis hung stormily over Bucharest last week and Rumanians learned what it was to face a war of nerves. Abruptly called home for a diplomatic council of war were the Kingdom's envoys to Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria. Of these, astute Vasile Stoica, Ambassador to...
Ambassador Stoica had just conferred in Ankara with Turkish Foreign Minister Shokru Saracoglu, who in turn had just returned from nearly a month of desultory negotiations in Moscow with Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov, negotiations which finally collapsed. When he went to Moscow, Mr. Saracoglu was believed to be acting...