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Before the jampacked Chamber of Deputies in Cairo's Parliament building rose Egypt's Premier Dr. Ahmed Maher Pasha. Five years ago he had urged Egypt to declare war on the Axis. Now he read the royal declaration of war he had drafted (at the behest of the Big Three-see INTERNATIONAL) with King Farouk. Then the portly, fun-loving Premier stepped briskly to the waiting Senate to read...
...brave - The mind whose thoughts are cradled in the hand - The fierce emancipators of the slave Exacting destiny of virgin land. We are the builders of dynamic things, Successors to the spires of Samarkand - Boilers and bars, propellers, wheels and wings To run and fly and dive at our behest, Through which the mighty wind of freedom sings. America is not a land of rest...
...precise definition of war aims. . . . Certain main points can be laid down as an expression of demands which all good Norwegians have formulated, namely: 1) a free and independent Norway; 2) complete reestablishment of democracy, legal security, free elections; 3) repeal of all laws, decrees, regulations promulgated at German behest or in the German interest; 4) compensation to the fullest possible extent of all those who have been particularly injured by the occupying power or the Nasjonal Samling [Quisling government]; 5) Nasjonal Sanding members and others who cooperated with the Germans to be punished after just trials...
...film was made by Producer Walter Wanger at the request of U.S. Assistant Surgeon General R. A. Vonderlehr, for free distribution. Both the U.S. Public Health Service and OWI approved it. Then, at the behest of Archbishop Francis J. Spellman, the Legion of Decency's Executive Secretary, the Very Reverend Monsignor John J. McClafferty, wrote OWI's Elmer Davis...
...Pucheu had made many an enemy in his career as steel cartelist, Fascist fellow traveler and Vichy Minister of Interior (1941-42). Now, he was on trial for his life, charged with defeatism, lèse-patrie, the murder of French resisters, the hounding of French workers at the behest of the Nazi Reich. His accusers said that the Council of Resistance in the homeland had long ago condemned Pierre Pucheu to death. They cited repressive Vichy measures bearing Pierre Pucheu's signature. Presumably their most telling evidence was presented in camera, lest unknown Frenchmen in France suffer...