Word: guardedness
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Fascist officials were far less cocky. Scenting the raid's disastrous effect on foreign opinion, Under-Secretary of State Fulvio Suvich sent a guarded apology to Stockholm. The Press was ordered to make no further reference to the affair but to whoop it up for Sub-Lieut. Tito Minniti...
None came. Acting as official spokesman, a London banker friend of the Lindberghs announced that they were in England on a six-month immigration permit, had come solely for ''peace " rest.'' Charles, Anne and small Jon Lindbergh kept to their three-room suite, behind locked doors...
By the fourth day, British newshawks had sullenly abandoned their siege and Lindbergh news in the British Press had dwindled to a trickle. Only U. S. correspondents were still prowling about when Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh bundled Jon out the hotel servants' entrance and into a waiting limousine, sped...
Expanding on reasons for the Lindberghs' move, Reporter Lyman reviewed the tide of threatening letters from cranks and crooks which had begun in 1927, ebbed & flowed as the Lindberghs were more or less prominent on the nation's front pages. Since the kidnapping of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr...
¶ No matter how few the casualties, one person almost certain not to survive the Ethiopian war has been Lij Yasu, "Child of Jesus," the 38-year-old onetime Emperor of Ethiopia. Deposed by Haile Selassie in 1916, Lij Yasu has since 1926 been a closely guarded prisoner in the...