Word: el
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ability to stop the Nazis. Axis propaganda kept telling them that the British would let them down, whereas the Axis would make their dreams of a united Arabia come true. Two of the chief propagandists, operating from Rome, were Iraq's ousted quisling Premier, Rashid Ali El-Gailani, and the sly, self-styled Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Jah Amin el Husseini. In Syria, mass dislike of the Free French-British puppet Government was breaking out in the form of bread riots. In Iraq, pro-Axis youth movements were active. In Iran, the Japanese Legation was a propaganda hotbed...
...Santiago, demonstrators stoned a tew Axis-owned stores, the PACH newsagency and the office of the pro-Axis newspaper El Chileno. The Japanese brazenly announced convoyed resumption of Japan-to-Chile shipping, promised within a week 24,000 tons of auto accessories, motors and tires...
...will certainly not solve the many differences between those in Harvard and those around it. Gantabrigians, however, may well learn that Harvard men are not necessarily rich wastrels or radical agitators, and undergraduates will find that residents of the city can be more than "those people who ride the El." Once the two groups have learned that the other can be trusted and depended upon, the edge of the hatchet will be dulled sufficiently to make its burial practically certain...
With full ceremony, mediators from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and the U.S. took over control of El Oro Province on the coast, which had been in Peruvian hands since last summer's fighting (TIME, Sept. 1), and turned it over to representatives of Ecuador...
...Ecuador, as in Peru, there has been some dissatisfaction over the settlement, since neither country got all it claimed. Ecuadorians charged that Peruvian soldiers pillaged El Oro before they evacuated, but observers noted that the Ecuadorian Army had also followed a scorched-earth policy when it retreated last year. The only losers seemed to be the inhabitants of El...