Word: comit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wave of Indignation. When peace broke out, François de Wendel became chairman of France's famous Comité des Forges, a sort of super lobby combining all of France's steel, iron and armament firms. He sold arms to white men, black men, yellow men. When governments opposed him, he felled them by withholding credit in his capacity as a regent of the Bank of France. When newspapers opposed him, he bought them. In the French "Who's Who," he described himself simply as "Maître de Forges" (iron master...
...Comité des Ecrivains (authors' association) publicly denounced: Paul Morand, ex-Vichy Ambassador to Bucharest; pro-German Novelists Jean Giono, Louis Ferdinand Céline (Louis Destouches), Journalists Henry de Montherlant, Jacques Chardonne...
...COMITÉ DEMOCRATICO NICARAGUENSE Riverdale...
...other purposes had been to send a radio transmitter to the German Legation in Lima. When Peruvian customs officials refused to pass the transmitter unopened it was sent back to Argentina. There it was seized, with other German diplomatic correspondence, by the eager sleuthhounds of the Argentine "Comité Dies." Last week, after much diplomatic fussing, the Germans got the transmitter and most of their documents back, but received no apology from the Argentine Government...
Argentina. For a month a committee of the Chamber of Deputies has been investigating anti-Argentine activities. Nicknamed the "Comite Dies" (the Committee received a telephonic blessing and promises of cooperation from Martin Dies himself), it had already made blunders. Acting on anonymous tips (presumably fed to it by thoughtful Nazis) it raided the homes of several innocent and indignant citizens, uncovered a "secret radio station" only to find that it had been set up by the Argentine Army. But last week the Comité Dies raided German business houses and social organizations, discovered ample documentary proof that the Argentine...