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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act...
...Moscow's Satire Theater the curtain rose on a new three-act comedy entitled Mr. Perkins' Mission to the Land of the Bolsheviks, written by ex-Vice Commissar of Foreign Afiairs Alexander Korneichuk, a topflight Russian playwright...
Under the nation's creaky election system, even this act was not final. Technically, the President would not be duly elected until next Jan. 6 at 1 p.m., when the House & Senate will meet in joint session for a formal electoral vote count. But there was a strong probability that the final result, as announced on Jan. 6, would be: Roosevelt, 432; Dewey...
...arms, but the regency was not a stumbling block. Most likely choice was 54-year-old Archbishop Damaskinos (born Demetrios Papandreou-see RELIGION), whose impartiality and anti-fascist record made him acceptable to both sides. Premier George Papandreou preferred a three-man regency. The Archbishop replied that he would act alone, or not at all. ELAS retired to consider surrendering its arms, the Government to persuade absent King George II to agree to a regency. Meanwhile the fighting continued...
...order revoking the clergy's oath of silence. This oath, guaranteeing the Lutheran clergy's right to preserve their parishioners' confidences, as Catholic priests preserve the secrets of the confessional, was Norway's "Magna Carta" of conscience. The seven bishops of Norway prepared to act. In a letter addressed to Minister of Church and Education Ragnar Skancke, they denounced the reign of terror by the Storm Troopers, the attack on schools and students, the forced resignation of the Supreme Court, and demanded to know whether the Norwegian State was still Christian...