Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tune of God Save the King, and tore down Union Jacks. But generally, French Canadians heeded the timely and wise admonition of Quebec's Premier Maurice Duplessis: ". . . Have respect for the laws." There were some disturbances elsewhere. In six British Columbia towns, drafted troops of the Pacific Command paraded noisily and shouted: "This is only the beginning. Blame the Government!" They had just learned they were to be among the first to go overseas. At Vernon, B.C., the soldiers mauled a captain who tried to interfere. Canadians shiveringly recalled the bloody conscription riots of World...
...more than ever, the Road was a military "must." The Japanese, with unbroken communications from Manchuria to the South China Sea, were bulging westward. With the capture of Ishan they ousted the U.S. Fourteenth Air Force from another airstrip. Under personal command of scrawny, high-powered Field Marshal Shunroku Hata, the Japanese now headed for the Chinese end of the Burma-Chungking Road. Only 180 miles away, they stood a good chance of cutting the Road below Chungking before the Chinese at the other end opened...
...Allied high command announced that it would soon ship in enough food through Antwerp to insure Belgians a ration of 2,000 calories a day (present ration: a little more than 1,500 calories). By February, Belgians were also promised, raw materials will begin to flow through Antwerp at the rate of at least 5,000 tons a day to start Belgium's idle factories turning out supplies for the Allied armies...
Wang suffered another crisis after Japan began the "China incident" (1937). First an ardent advocate of Chinese resistance, he later changed his mind, plumped for a "peaceful settlement" with Japan. One day, while still chairman of the central political council and second in command to Chiang Kaishek, he slipped away from Chungking to Nanking. Japan, looking fora puppet, grabbed him eagerly, made him premier and president of the Axis-recognized Nanking government. For this crowning act of apostasy the Chinese erected in Chungking a life-size statue of Wang, naked and grovelling, for all to spit upon...
...McCampbell, "and I never forget that"). But probably the biggest reason for it is that he fights for all he is worth. After one battle, the other pilots in his squadron returned with an average of 20 gallons of gasoline and 100 rounds of ammunition; McCampbell, who had his command job as well as fighting to do, had two gallons and two rounds...