Word: assistance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...message citing the need for the club, President Conant wrote: "An organization which is to lead to better understanding between these students and those of American nationality, to assist foreign students in their problems, and to make them feel more at home in this community, can perform a service of great usefulness. I wish for you a successful realization of your purposes...
Reign of Terror. These democrats were a small minority in the mass of pro-fascists, but later, from Istanbul, Timesman Levy cabled more serious charges: the average Bulgar "hoped that as soon as the dictatorial fascist regime in Bulgaria was overthrown, the Allies would assist his country to establish a true liberal and democratic government. But instead, he feels, Bulgaria today, four months after liberation from the Nazi yoke, is subjected to a Bulgarian dictatorial regime as unbearable and distasteful to the vast majority of Bulgars as was the former Nazi-inspired fascist government...
...hospital commanding officer told me we must leave five nurses behind to care for the most serious cases and to assist in the operating room. For a moment I couldn't see how I could choose five when I myself was not allowed to remain. So I decided to ask for volunteers. ... I had a lump in my throat at the hands which went up before the words were scarcely out of my mouth, and at the cries of 'Please let me stay!' ... As our trucks pulled away at dusk, it was the saddest...
...position of both the U.S. and Britain leaves much to be desired. The U.S. says, in effect, that we guarantee to you your right to form a government of your own choosing but we will do nothing to assist you in this. Great Britain says, in effect, that we guarantee to you your right to form a government of your own choosing provided that it is a government of which we approve...
Premier Pierlot did not budge. His Government set a deadline for surrender of Resistance weapons, on pain of "legal proceedings." He said: "We want liberty with order." Said Britain's Major General G. W. E. J. Erskine, head of the Allied Military Mission in Belgium: "Allied forces will assist the Government with the view of insuring respect for law and order because both are essential for the conduct of military operations...