Word: baron
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...removal as a signal that the time had come to strike against the Nazis? Three months ago Allied intelligence officers had heard reports of a Wehrmacht coup in the making. Rumors linked Rundstedt's name with men like Finance Wizard Hjalmar Schacht, onetime Foreign Minister Constantin von Neurath, Baron von Weizsacker, Ambassador to the Vatican, former Oberbürgermeister Karl Goerdeler of Leipzig and numerous less well-known diplomatic, industrial and old-time Government figures...
...grey-red House of Representatives, Finland's Eduskunta (parliament) met five times in one day. In its fifth fevered session it jolted stubborn, Russophobic President Risto Ryti out of office, gave his job to Finland's one indubitably strong man, stubborn, Russophobic Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustav Mannerheim...
Businessmen and industrialists joined hands with Finland's biggest trade-union leader, oldtime Bolshevik Eero Vuori. Vuori might become a link between Bolshevik-hating Baron Mannerheim and Moscow. For despite Risto Ryti's promise to Hitler, secret talks between Finns and Russians had been resumed in Stockholm. Out of them came a Finnish hope that Moscow would deal with Mannerheim...
...Sotaro Ishiwata, Finance Minister. He was beaver-busy piling up yen for war in the Cabinet of Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma (1939). It was then too that he established his record as a liberal. He opposed the Japanese alliance with Germany...
Died. Sir Arthur Herbert Tennyson Somers Cocks, 6th Baron Somers, 57, Chief Scout of the British Commonwealth since World Chief Scout Sir Robert Baden-Powell's death in 1941; in Herfordshire, England. In merit-badge circles. Scout Cocks was chiefly famed for first-aid work (he was onetime World War II Red Cross commissioner in Egypt...