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Czech Cavells. In London, former Czecho-Slovak President Dr. Eduard Benes predicted that the Prague executions will "play in Czech opinion the same part as the assassination of Nurse Edith Cavell played in English public opinion during the World War." In Washington, the Czecho-Slovak Legation half-staffed its flag...
Sir Eric's successor will be 56-year-old Sir Ronald Hugh Campbell, who served as Minister to Paris from 1929 to 1935, has since been Minister to Yugoslavia. It is unusual for a British Ambassador to France (with Paris and Washington at the top of the British Ambassadorial...
Arrival of Minister Bruggmann reminded Washington of the diplomatic marriages of two sisters of Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace. Madame Bruggmann was born Mary Wallace in Iowa, fifth in line from Brother Henry, married Karl Bruggmann in one of the most brilliant social events of the Coolidge administration. Next, her...
All European countries, neutrals not excepted, were on short rations at the close of World War I, and in 1919 hungry Finland bought $9,000,000 worth of U. S. food. In 1923, when representatives of the Great Powers started coming to Washington to make refunding agreements, Finland was first...
In response to an advertisement by Producer Wilcox for an expert on the décor of Brussels in 1915, one turned up, established his competence by proving that he was the shoemaker who forged credentials for Nurse Cavell and her friends. He not only did the décor...