He held that post until December 1940, when he was appointed ambassador to the Vichy government that had been established in France after the Germans defeated the French army. There Leahy’s chief task was to stiffen French resistance to German pressure and to keep the French fleet out of ...
Franz von Papen was sent as German ambassador to reduce Austria by other means. Kurt von Schuschnigg(more) Kurt von Schuschnigg, who became chancellor on the death of Dollfuss, was a man of gentler personality and of less-violent political passions. His administration of the authoritarian ...
when Americans suddenly were obliged to accept that former war allies, Russia and China, were now considered enemies, while former enemies Germany and Japan were allies. What remained consistent was US America’s need for a perceived alien menace, a demo...
Paul Wallenberg was the Swedish ambassador to Hungary. He arrived shortly after 438,000 Jews were deported from Hungary to their deaths in German extermination camps. He issued Swedish passports to approximately 35,000 Jews and made Adolf Eichmann furious. As the Germans would march Jews in what...
An intelligence quotient test (IQ test) is a series of standardized tests used to gauge and assess a person's intelligence. While most people will never take a formal IQ test,high IQshave nevertheless always been a topic of public interest. ...
For his part, Saddam had primly and properly called in the US Ambassador to Iraq, the top career diplomat April Glaspie, and told her he had accounts to settle with Kuwait over the Iran-Iraq war. Glaspie, under instructions of the Bush-Baker State Department, famously told him the USA...
Evolution has been constant as the Schwarzkopf brand has grown over the last century. From being the first company to invent powder shampoo, liquid shampoo, hairspray, Schwarzkopf continues to keep on innovating and elevating its hair care products and formulas. In the future, we will continue ou...
Ambassador Airways (1992 - 94) Amber Airways Anglo Cargo (1983 -92) Aquila Airways Autair International (precursor of Court Line) AV8 Air Bookajet (2003 - 04, to Club 328) British Airtours (former charter subsidiary of British Airways) ...
Many Army officers benefitted from overseeing the camps, not otherwise having the opportunity to supervise large groups of personnel in the period between the world wars. Also in 1933, Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany. [Pictured: Members of the Civilian Conservation Corps in the Pacific ...
I was with my family, six of us in total, and we were sleeping in an Ace Ambassador caravan in a lay-by in Bulgaria. To understand how we had ended up in this unlikely situation you need to know two things about my father: first, that in his view a holiday was not a holiday unl...