Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's end Prince Paul did something more to his liking when he entrained for London to be the guest at Buckingham Palace of King George and Queen Elizabeth. The Prince and his wife, Princess Olga, insisted their visit was a private affair to see the Duke & Duchess of Kent before their departure in November for Australia, where the Duke will assume his duties of Governor General. Princess Marina, the Duchess, is Princess Olga's sister...
...aviators bombed the railhead at Halunarshan, 125 miles behind the front. The Japanese had scarcely begun to protest that this was not cricket when a squadron of Russian bombers peppered Furoruji, almost 400 miles from the scene of battle. This, the Japanese announced, "differed radically from the border affair" and was going too far. If the Russians do not stop dumping bombs deep in Manchukuo, they said, Japanese planes will carry the war into Siberia. Next day seven Red bombers took the dare and blasted Halunarshan again...
...days last week the British Government persuaded itself that the worst of the Tientsin affair was over, that the Japanese, who had agreed to a conference at Tokyo, were willing to settle it as an isolated problem without discussing the fundamental issues-Britain's rights in her Chinese settlements and her privilege to help whom she pleases in the Sino-Japanese War. The British were heartened when the Japanese eased the blockade of the British Concession at Tientsin; partial milk delivery was resumed, food became more plentiful, and the stripping of British subjects was discontinued...
Last year the Brazilian Fascist organization of Integralistas tried a spectacular, unsuccessful coup against President Getulio Vargas. Suspicion was high that Germans in Brazil had had a hand in the affair. Dr. Karl Ritter, German Ambassador to Brazil, protested anti-Nazi measures following the uprising and soon after ward the Brazilian Government declared him persona non grata. For retaliation Germany asked that the Brazilian Ambassador to Berlin leave...
...Homeward, Angel and Of Time and the River, he recorded only the emotions of his childhood and adolescence, the first intellectual awakenings of his young manhood. What passions, readers asked themselves, what intensities of brooding, pain and rhetoric would Thomas Wolfe show himself evincing in his first serious love affair? The possibilities were slightly awesome to contemplate...