Word: ende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reds were still trying to establish a working relationship with the Catholic Church-on their own terms. Last week Hungary's Bench of Bishops received a letter-supposedly written by Mindszenty and similar to the one read during the trial-urging an agreement. At week's end, the bishops had not given their answer. But in Rome, the Pope once more sweepingly denounced Mindszenty's jailers and warned Catholics of the dangers inherent in subservience to totalitarian states...
...made it plain that unless Sun Fo agreed to return to Nanking and support the Acting President's policies, he would oust Sun Fo as Premier. At week's end, Sun Fo had not revealed his decision...
Harry Truman's "bold new program" seemed tailor-made for Latin America. All 20 Latin American republics are "underdeveloped." They have been crying for economic help ever since war's end, when the flow of U.S. dollars southward slowed to a trickle. Would the "bold new program" solve their problem...
...week's end, when Montreal's Mayor Camellien Houde puffed up to McGill for the carnival ball, he put the crown on Beryl Dickinson-Dash's head. In the voting by McGill's 8,500 students (150 of them Negroes), Beryl had posted a decisive margin. The student council gave out no figures ("It might injure the other girls"), but it was satisfied with the election result. McGill's students, untroubled by any race problem, had merely voted for a popular and attractive girl, regardless of the color of her skin...
...played in North Africa and Palestine and, after D-day in Normandy, "followed right behind-discreetly of course," playing on "everything from upright grands to downright shames." At war's end, he was made a commander of the Order of the British Empire...