Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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When the correspondents were admitted to the vast Hall of Ambassadors in the Chancellery, they observed that Don Ramón Serrano Suñer was not there. Neither was any member of the diplomatic corps except slim, suave Saburo Kurusu, who represents Japan in Berlin and has a Nazi-phobe American wife. Just outside a door that leads to the offices of Adolf Hitler a long table had been placed. Ambassador Kurusu sat there, as did Count Ciano and Herr von Ribbentrop. Before them, on the table, lay a thin document in triplicate...
...fond of reminding the world, is parceled out in limited quantities. Last week the share allotted to Norway ran out. Taking to the radio in Oslo, Reich Commissioner to Norway Josef Terboven announced the end of Norway's Monarchy and Parliament, the dissolution of all political parties except Major Vidkun Quisling's Nasjonal Samling (National Union...
...great port, Rio de Janeiro. Coal for smelting is available in Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul. The Brazilian Government had dreamed of developing its steel industry independently, but, finding the financial burden too great, it offered the concession to the highest foreign bidder. Interest lagged except in iron-hungry Germany, where the Krupp combine, according to the Brazilians, tried hard to get the monopoly. Hitler's commercial agents, they said, had offered to transfer the entire Skoda Works from Czecho-Slovakia to Brazil. When World War II began to devour more steel than Europe could produce, Axel...
German concentrations as far south as Lorient led to a revival of the suspicion that Ireland might receive the first blow. Nothing had been heard from the huge concentration of troops and planes in Norway, except for an unconfirmed rumor that Aberdeen had been cut flat by bombs. Last week's strange news that the Finns were permitting German troops passage to Norway did not ease nervousness about the North. London heard and believed a new tale of attempt at the Strait of Dover last week, which was said to have failed because the R. A. F. shot down...
...Europe, professional tennis tournaments are outstanding sport events. But not in the U. S. The majority of U. S. tennis pros are teaching pros. For their $15-a-year dues to the Professional Lawn Tennis Association they get little except a chance to be trounced by top-rank exhibition pros in the annual championship tournament. U. S. fans look with lacklustre eye on the national professional tournament because the top-rank exhibition pros, razor-keen after a season of barnstorming, always breeze through to the final-and watching the exhibitionists play a match is like watching the exhibitionists play...