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The Yankee Clipper, dropping down to a river landing at Lisbon, skimmed the water with a wing tip, suddenly burst into a flower of flame and cut under the surface. Of 39 men & women aboard, 24 were lost. Among the missing: Musicomedienne Tamara (one of a party of USO entertainers...
Field Marshal Mannerheim reportedly had asked the American Legation in Helsinki to find out whether his well-known hatred of the Soviet Union would be a bar to a negotiated peace. To this feeler, the Russians apparently were as cold as Russian winter.
They prepared politically by adopting democratic methods almost unprecedented in the Balkans. Town councils were elected by ballot. Medical services were instituted under the direction of famous Belgrade Professor Sima Miloshevich. Theaters were opened in the liberated territory, featuring well-known actors and the entire orchestra of the Zagreb National...
Manhattan Socialite Henry Bergh was 50 when he began to chase droshkies. One day in 1863 a St. Petersburg droshky driver was merrily lashing his horse in the Russian manner. Suddenly a smart carriage pulled alongside and Bergh, who was First Secretary of the U.S. Legation, bellowed to his coachman...
Why Bergh was aroused by inhumanity so late in life is "any man's guess." But eventually he gave up his Legation post, returned to Manhattan to found the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Author Steele tells the story of Bergh's fanatical humanitarianism...