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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Next day a German Foreign Office spokesman tried to be jocular about it. "Germany won't object," he said, "if Britain sends Finland some old cannon from the Tower of London, or gives the Finns the same assistance she gave the Poles. But"-his voice hardened-"active assistance is another matter." Then Germany apparently began to realize how active, and how worldwide, outside assistance not only to Finland, but to Scandinavia in general, had become. Here was a new Spain. Help reported last week...
...this war Lord Lothian explained the real prize is sea power, the issue "freedom or tyranny." Sometime next spring he expected the crisis-when the Germans would attack with "all the ferocity and ruthlessness the Nazis have taught us to expect...
...Harbor. Ashore India was prepared to greet her new ruler with the customary fanfare. India waited. Lord Irwin sent word that he considered Good Friday an inappropriate day for pomp. Instead he went ashore unofficially to attend a three-hour Good Friday agony service in Bombay. Not until the next morning did the new ruler officially step from his launch to Indian soil while the white warships of the Indian squadron boomed 31 guns...
...German Army went cracking into Poland, no Party car carried Unity and next thing Lord Redesdale heard was that his daughter was in a hospital at Munich...
...London socialite and intimate friend of the Windsors, dropped her evening bag (containing diamond-studded, gold-plated doodads, value: $2,500) on a Manhattan street. Missing it, the party returned to the Vanderbilt Fifth Avenue mansion, questioned all the servants. Flustered Mrs. Vanderbilt called in the dicks. Next day the bag was returned by an honest jobless couple who had found...