Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United Nations should have armadas of "national air force contingents . . . immediately available" to send against an aggressor. (The Administration reportedly will ask Congress to create a special air unit, which could be sent into action without Congressional approval...
...Albany correspondents this week wrote "authoritative" stories saying that Dewey, if elected, would ask Cordell Hull to stay on to help him. Said Cordell Hull in careful reply: "My support and loyalty belong primarily to the Government and its present official head, President Roosevelt...
Some citizens actually took the Treasury's convenience measure to mean that they had to cash in their bonds. (One Philadelphia matron called her bank to explain that she could not get down that day and to ask if she could still get her money next day.) Some felt they need not hang on to their bonds any longer. One woman cashed in $1,000 worth "to bet on a race horse"; another got $75 to do her Christmas shopping "before the rest of the women pick over everything." A middle-aged couple cashed in $225 worth of bonds...
This week the Italian Government tried to make something happen. If reports were true, they had taken the Churchill-Roosevelt declaration as a cue to ask officially for participation in the European peace conference as a full-fledged United Nation...
...American officer, explaining the difference between the U.S. Army's policy toward civilians in Belgium and Germany, had said: "In Belgium we ask them; in Germany we tell them." Now Vienna-born Captain Kurt Walitschek, of the U.S. Army, presiding at the summary military court trial of the four women, was prepared to demonstrate that policy...