Word: wellington
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Russian Delegate Jacob Suritz, also Ambassador to France, kept to his hotel while the League Council, in secret session, debated. Prominent visitor to Comrade Suritz's suite was the cultured, polished, Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo, the Chinese delegate. One more screwy turn of the 20th Century's apparently chronic cockayed politics, had put the doctor on another grotesque spot. Once China demanded that the League act against Japanese aggression. Later China supported League action against Italy in Ethiopia. But China, on the other hand, gets much of its war materials from the Soviet Union. Despite China...
...deference to them he went without his usual midday Scotch & splash, drank wine with the meal (oysters, roast chicken, potatoes, peas, duck pâté, salad, ices, fruit). Another day he lunched in a corporals' mess room, another in a chateau used by Napoleon before, and by Wellington after, Waterloo. The King's comment to an artillery officer was quoted as his cheering verdict to all ranks: "As long as we keep on the way we are going now, we won't need to worry about the outcome...
...specialty: English North Country songs, the phlegmatic Lancashire monologues that have made Gracie Fields Britain's top entertainer. From Pat many U. S. radio listeners have learned for the first time of stubborn old Sam Small, who held up the Battle of Waterloo until the Duke of Wellington, no less, soft-soaped him into picking up his musket. They know, too. of young Albert Ramsbottom who got et by a lion at Blackpool zoo, moving his outraged parents to lament...
...which Britain's peerless fleet was matched against Napoleon's peerless Grand Army. Napoleon conquered a continent and kept British commerce away from it for six terrible years. But in the end, strangled economically herself by the British sea blockade and finally knocked in the head by Wellington and the Allies, France went broke and got beaten...
...beginning of this year Britain had about seven bombers for every three pursuit ships; and they are good bombers. The Vickers Wellington can go almost 300 m.p.h., and has ample range to strike at Berlin-3,240 miles. Smaller, just as fast, the Bristol Blenheim (range: 1,125 miles) is one of Great Britain's main standbys. And the mysterious Bristol Beaufort is too fast and too good to be described to the public...