Word: chessboards
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...Francisco Castillo Nájera, Mexico's Ambassador to the U.S. and a good chess player, was playing the biggest diplomatic game of his career. On the international chessboard in Washington were some powerful pieces-oil, silver, the Good Neighbor policy. One afternoon last week, at an hour usually sacred to siesta, Chess Player Castillo Nájera played all his pieces and played them well...
...Hitler saw through it and attacked him before he was ready. Now, after 17 weeks, Hitler had hurt Russia so badly that, at best, Joseph Stalin would have to begin all over again. The work of years, the beautiful factories, the idea that every man might own a chessboard and have time to play-almost everything Stalinist was now broken by Hitler. This was the same Hitler who wired Stalin in 1939: "I beg you to accept my sincerest congratulations on your 60th birthday. I enclose with them my best wishes for your personal welfare as well...
...with what they hope will develop into a pan-Arab front, the British used as their mouthpiece the reliable Emir of Trans-Jordan, who likes the new Turkey as much as he disliked the old Ottoman Empire. From his winter camp at Eshuneh, Abdullah sat down to the international chessboard and proclaimed to the world...