Word: aegean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back from the globe's Middle East crossroads, John Foster Dulles got down from an Air Force Constellation at Washington airport one evening last week, the first U.S. Secretary of State ever to have visited the vast, strategic region between the Aegean and the Ganges. Dulles and his party, including Mutual Security Director Harold E. Stassen, had bridged an arduous 20,000 miles in 20 days, listened and talked to the rulers of twelve countries inhabited by nearly half the people of the non-Communist world...
Among the British navy's best little ships in World War II was the submarine Sportsman. Once, after waiting days for an enemy ship to come out of an Aegean harbor, she went right up to the boom, sent a spread of torpedoes through the harbor gates and sank her. By war's end the Sportsman had accounted for 31,000 tons of enemy shipping. This year the British turned her over to the French navy as a training ship. The French made a lady out of the Sportsman, rechristened her La Sibylle...
...block the Normandy invasion at the Churchill-Stalin-F.D.R. meeting in Teheran he brands as completely false. He backed the plan to the hilt. Nor, says Churchill, did he,try for a Balkan invasion. What he did fight for, and did not get, was a conquest of the Aegean Islands that might bring Turkey into the war on the allied side. Because they blocked his pet plan, both F.D.R. and Eisenhower got a taste of Churchillian wrath: "There ought, I think, to be some elasticity and a reasonable latitude in the handling of our joint affairs ... I will...
Samothrace, a small island in the Aegean Sea, is now barren and only thinly inhabited. But in classical times it was the center of a fabulous religious cult. From all over the Graeco-Roman world, devotees came to worship "The Great Gods of Samothrace" and to be initiated into their ancient and secret mysteries...
...Sent to Palestine in 1948 as assistant to U.N. Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden, Bunche had quickly won the count's friendship and admiration. After Bernadotte's assassination by Israeli terrorists in September 1948, Bunche carried on Bernadotte's job. At his headquarters on the Aegean Island of Rhodes the American charmed, cajoled and sometimes bullied testy, mistrustful Arab and Israeli peace negotiators. Bunche worked tirelessly 16 to 20 hours a day, lighting one cigarette off another and drinking vast quantities of orange juice. (Some of his staff members, he recalls, insisted bitterly that the orange...