Word: correspondence
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Through the lines on Friday came an enemy envoy carrying a white sheet. He delivered an ultimatum: two hours to decide upon surrender. The alternative: "annihilation by artillery." The German commander appended a touching appeal to U.S. instincts: "The serious civilian losses caused by this artillery fire would not correspond with the well-known American humanity...
Chang emphasized the importance of the rising local governments in the Hsien, which correspond to our countries. "The development of local government has been remarkably rapid during the war," he asserted. "Appreciable progress has been made also in mass education and agricultural and industrial cooperatives, and all this development of local self- government may well be considered the most significant reform carried out by the Chinese Government in recent years...
...York Herald Tribune Correspondent John Chabot Smith made the serious charge that on two successive days official announcements of Fifth Army progress failed to jibe with the operational maps. Headquarters lamely explained that patrols had reached forward points, then came back. Even the Army newspaper Stars and Stripes dared to raise the question with the headline: "Is or Isn't the Gothic Line Cracked?" Wrote Correspond ent Sergeant Jack Foisie...
Born. To Cyrus Lee Sulzberger, 31, New York Times Middle East correspond ent, nephew of the Times's Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger; and his Greek wife, Marina Tatiana Lada Sulzberger, 25: their first child, a daughter; in Cairo, Egypt. Name : Marina Beatrice...
Major David Francis of Montreal, who lost two fingers and got a bullet in the lungs on the Dieppe raid, told correspond ents that "the first person I met this morning, believe it or not, was the French girl who dressed my wounds under fire during our raid two years ago. She didn't recognize me until she saw my hand." The men of the 2nd found that the Germans, who in 1942 could still afford gallant gestures, had honored the brave Canadian dead. They had been buried in a special cemetery, on high ground out side the port...