Word: istanbul
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the Middle Ages Sweden was successively the terror of Russia and of Germany. The great Russian trading centre Novgorod was founded originally by Swedish corsairs; they pressed down the Dnepr River and into the Black Sea to trade with "Miklagarth the Golden" as they called Istanbul in their Sagas; and on Midsummer Eve, 1630 the greatest of Swedish kings, Gustavus Adolphus, "The Lion of the North," launched an invasion that swept irresistibly across Germany...
When the last Armistice was flashed, a minesweeping force sped into the Dardanelles and in 24 hours removed 600 British and enemy mines, to let the fleet move in to Istanbul. At home, Britain's mine-sweeping fleet contained 17,000 ships, with Great Grimsby, the fishing port at the mouth of the Humber River, as their main base. Shallow-draft fishing boats, motor launches, even paddle steamers were pressed into service. In the first two months of that war, for every two mines swept up, one trawler was lost. By 1918, the rate was 80 mines swept...
Igor Strawinsky will give a series of lectures under the auspices of the Charles Eliot Norton Poetry Fund and Dr. Richard de Mises, director of the Institute of Mathematics, Istanbul University, will be with the Mathematics Department...
Strategically, the Allies might be better fixed for World War II. With Turkey, Rumania and Greece on the Allied side, expeditions could be sent against a German-Hungarian alliance through the Vardar River valley from Salonika, along the so-called Diagonal Furrow that reaches from Istanbul through Bulgaria to Belgrade, up the valley of the lower Danube from Rumania, and over the passes of the Transylvanian Alps, which are a southerly extension of the Carpathians. All this could be done provided the Allies eliminate Italy...
...From Warsaw early this week he was scheduled to go to Gdynia, the Baltic Polish port near Danzig, where he was to catch a ship for France. Onthelstanbul-Bucharest-Warsaw-Gdynia-Paris route Zog will have traveled 2,700 miles, which is 1,100 miles longer than the direct Istanbul-Sofia-Belgrade-Milan-Paris rail trip...