Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...never was and never will be what your reporter calls a salon Bolshevik. I was with the soldiers of the first World War, with the workers of Berlin, with the peasants of Bavaria, with the miners of the Saar, and had no time to join those circles of rich people who find themselves interesting by talking revolution in their parlors...
...while in Washington tiny Ambassador Constantine Alexandrovich Oumansky served caviar to U. S. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles and to Allied and Axis diplomats. The second anniversary of great Kamal Atatürk's death was commemorated in Turkey, while Turkey's fate was discussed in Berlin . Few nations bothered to mark the 22nd anniversary of the World War I Armistice this week, an irony made more ironical by the fact that last week's most important anniversary was the 17th of an abortive Bavarian Putsch which was little more than a brawl...
Russia's Premier and Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov took a train for Berlin this week. It was the first time that schoolmasterish Comrade Molotov had ever left his own country, and only the most pressing business could have induced him to go to Berlin. The business was pressing. For weeks Adolf Hitler has wanted to know how Russia would react to a concerted Axis drive to the East. For weeks Joseph Stalin has stalled...
Secret British information intended for Washington is usually handed to the U. S. Embassy in London for transmission in code. When various items began to turn up in Berlin last spring, often to be hurled tauntingly back at Great Britain by renegade Broadcaster William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw), Scotland Yard agents suspected a leak and tapped the Embassy telephone wires. Within a short time they had heard enough. They arrested Tyler G. Kent, a weak-chinned, 29-year-old American code clerk, who went to London from the U. S. Moscow Embassy at the beginning...
...From Berlin came word that Nazis had permitted grave, shy Irène Joliot-Curie, Nobel Prizewinning daughter and image of the late, great Marie Curie, to return to the Paris Radium Institute, resume her experiments in artificial radioactivity...