Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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France announced that her Navy would convoy food from abroad to the ports of unoccupied France, a move which will either put a leak in the British blockade or bring the French and British Navies into conflict again. In Paris Vice Premier Admiral Jean Francois Darlan closed a deal under which Germany will help to run French industry (i.e., direct it). From Morocco General Maxime Weygand rushed to Vichy, lunched with Admiral Darlan and assured the new boss that he was no foe of "collaboration." After the luncheon a communique announced that France would defend "any part of her Empire...
...current idea that Nazism is a world revoultion was advanced long ago by Pettee in a number of articles and in recent discussions, he has suggested that the present conflict is a revolution against the Western state system. In Government 3, a course in which he collaborates with William Y. Elliott, professor of Government, Pettee emphasizes the oneness of a culture and the nature of social upheaval. His opposition to military intervention in World War II has been forthright and pronounced...
...gone; he was confident. He jibed at the U. S. and at Churchill. He lambasted Italians who complain about Italy's having plunged into the war, and foreigners who laugh about it: "Some think now we were too soon, who then thought we were too late." Of the conflict against the Greeks, he spoke with cryptic assurance: "Soon maybe it will be spring, and as the season may dictate, will come our beautiful season...
...moves," the paper claims that his trip to England is the "dramatic culmination of a year and a half of persistent effort to involve America in war." It goes on to say that he has been the leading spokesman for war and dictatorship since the beginning of the conflict...
...girl is here and wants to annual her marriage, for she is engaged to another man. The Bureau is handling her case which is unusually difficult since it involves a conflict of state laws...