Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last March Imperial Airways, then run by dour Sir John Reith, tersely announced that its flying boat Corsair had made a forced landing in the Belgian Congo, "but all aboard are safe." Last week, uninformative Sir John having become British Minister of Information, and the Corsair having returned to Great Britain, the story of its African saga was told...
Engineer Halliday decided to hire enough black bucks to dam the Dangu and create an artificial lake. A whole village, more than 200 blacks, were hired at a shilling and tuppence (27?) a head per week. In the sweating jungle Congo belles wheedled out of their bosses split piston rings for their noses, rivets for their ears. Duralumin rings for bracelets. Soon blacks and whites were so friendly that each Briton had a nickname in native dialect. Radioman James Wycherley was named "King of the white men" because he sat at his dials instead of working...
Impish Alan Patrick Herbert, top-notch Punch humorist and jackanapes No. 1 of the House of Commons, bolted early breakfast one morning last week, hustled over to reach Westminster at 8 a.m. wearing an expectant grin. Other M. P.s, equally eager to squeeze into their House, which is much too small to seat all of them, were already jampacked around the door. They half-hoped that Leslie Hore-Belisha, recently ousted British War Secretary (TIME, Jan. 15), would clash with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in the first really hot House of Commons debate since outbreak...
Most official German publications have tried to pin war guilt largely on Great Britain. Last week an official statement was issued in Berlin which helped along this favorite Nazi thesis but which also recounted the tricky diplomacy of Georges Bonnet, French Foreign Minister for the 18 crucial months before war's outbreak...
...Bonnet-Ribbentrop conversations were not made public at the time, but last week the Reich not only accused Foreign Minister Bonnet of double-crossing Germany but intimated that he had been quite willing to mislead his own Parliament...