Word: masts
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Died. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana, 69, Harvard-educated authority on Russian drama, grandson of Poet Longfellow and Author Richard Henry Dana (Two Years Before the Mast); of a heart ailment; in Cambridge, Mass. He was fired from the Columbia faculty in 1917 for pacifism, barred from England in 1932 for pro-Communist activities...
...anyone planning to follow the sea for a living had to learn to like salt pork, the old man told him). One day, far out on Buzzards Bay, the old man died of a heart attack. Twelve-year-old Forrest was not rattled. He lowered the ensign to half-mast as stipulated by naval custom, sailed the catboat safely back to harbor...
...been relieved of duty because of a leak of French political secrets to IndoChina's Communists. For three weeks after the report was printed, the French government said not a word. A few French newspapers hinted at serious charges against Revers and his friend, retired General Charles Emmanuel Mast. In the cozy Chez Albert, where France's deputies dine in the shadow of the grimy Palais-Bourbon, hushed conversation turned more & more to I'affaire des généraux. Then the scandal burst into open flame, and Premier Georges Bidault hastily summoned Defense Minister Rene...
...young Indo-Chinese after a bus fight, found in his possession a top-secret report on Indo-China written by Revers. Police traced the report back to a "double or perhaps triple" informer and onetime embezzler named Roger Peyre, who said he had gotten the report from General Mast. Revers meanwhile had admitted giving it to Mast. Peyre, said Bidault, then sold the report for 2,800,000 francs to another agent who then turned it over to the Indo-Chinese Communists. Peyre intended to use the money as a campaign fund to support the candidacy of General Mast...
...appraise the damage done by the leak. It concluded that the report, "while of a confidential political character, could not be considered as national defense secrets." Peyre and the other agents with whom he had dealt were released, and Peyre reportedly set sail for South America. Meanwhile, General Mast had retired, and General Revers remained "at the disposition of the Prime Minister." That was all the government knew about the case, Bidault concluded...