Word: mishaps
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...different nature. Possibly an internal explosion-sabotage, if you will-such as a boiler explosion; the power is sufficient. Or perhaps a collision with another ship: in the darkness somebody zigged when he should have zagged. In either case an alert British propagandist could make excellent capital of the mishap-with a rigid and sympathetic censorship holding up the news until the collective stories should hang together fairly well...
Last week at the Hotel Continental, where the French Information Ministry is now installed, a bureaucratic mishap befell New Minister of Information Louis Frossard. He was not let into his own Ministry until the meticulous Republican Guard officer on duty, who from the first had recognized M. Frossard, wrote him out a temporary laissez passer for that day only, warned the Minister that he would not be admitted again unless he carried a proper pass bearing his photograph, stamped and signed...