Word: backed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lattre to go straight to Berlin without asking anyone's permission and to sign; De Lattre went and signed-as a witness. Then he issued one of his Napoleonic orders of the day: "The day of victory has arrived . . . victory of May, radiant victory of springtime, which gives back to our France her youth, her strength and her hope...
Obsessed with his ideal, Abetz convinced himself that the "reasonable and peaceful elements" in Naziism would help him realize it. Eagerly, he went back to Paris. This time he had 350,000 francs a month expense money from the Nazis. He used it to subsidize pro-German writers, to make himself the intimate acquaintance of powerful French politicians and industrialists. He paved the way for Munich and the failure of French arms...
...heat in tiny, suffocating Chamber 13 of the Palais de Justice matted the 46-year-old defendant's white mane, wreathed his wrinkled face in perspiration. Four years after the war, the narrative of Nazi evil retold in the courtroom roused no passion, fell back into forgetfulness. During his deft defense, Abetz mechanically professed Nazi theory, just as mechanically pleaded that he had always tried to mitigate Nazi practice. The sentence: 20 years at hard labor...
...four-week-old London dock strike was over. This week 15,500 dock workers went back to work and 12,000 troops who had been taking their places returned to their regular duties. Officials of the Communist-tinged Canadian Seamen's Union did what the Labor government was unable to do. They called off their strike as far as British ports were concerned. So the dockers could, without being called "blacklegs," unload the two Canadian ships that had started the trouble...
Next day he was back at work behind his big oak desk in a huge, paneled room in the Ministry of Defense. He is easily accessible for interviews, at which he does nearly all the talking-in French, with a rasping Turkish accent. Midnight strollers in Damascus often see Zaim's Cadillac, preceded and followed by armored jeeps and outriders, speeding home from the Defense Ministry to the dictator's pretty young wife and two children (she is about to have a third...