Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Benes, President of Czecho-Slovakia, was going to Moscow to sign a 20-year military and political alliance with Russia. At British and perhaps U.S. prompting, he stayed in London. Alexander E. Bogomolov, Russian Ambassador to the Allied Governments in Exile in London, asked to go to Algiers to establish contact with the French Com mittee of National Liberation. The British gave him the required exit visa; U.S. authorities for more than a month refused him permission to enter Algiers. Only last week was the Ambassador allowed to proceed with his mission...
This Government Must Be Strong and possess the necessary power to render harmless the enemies of the people-Hitler, his patrons and satellites., It must resolutely put an end to terror and corruption, establish firm order and represent Germany with dignity to the outside world...
...last president of Spain's Republican Cortes, presided over a meeting of four factions: Izquierda Republicana (Republican Left), Unión Republicana, Catalána Esquerra (Catalan Left), Partido Nacionalista Basco (Basque Nationalists). Main agreement: that the last president of the Republican Cortes will decide when to re-establish the Republican Government in Spain. But absent from the meeting were the followers of Juan Negrín, Socialist last Premier of Republican Spain, now in England, as well as powerful other Socialist and Communist groups...
...Daily Herald, speaking for the Labor Party, hoped the new Viceroy. Lord Wavell, "will sweep away the pompous trappings of the New Delhi Court and establish contact with the real life of India. . . . The British Government itself must take a hand. ... It must resume the initiative; reopen negotiations with representatives of the Indians; shake off the weary fatalism in which it has persisted ever since the Cripps talks failed...
...Pontiff No. 262 in a prelatical line which includes the Apostle Peter (whom, Catholics believe, Christ commanded to establish the Roman Catholic Church); Leo the Great (who saved Rome from Attila's sacking Huns); Lucius III (who instigated the Inquisition); Innocent III (who exercised effective political control over all Italy and much of Europe, bringing the temporal power of the Papacy to its high-water mark); Leo X (a worldly, cultivated gentleman who excommunicated Martin Luther and proved incapable of dealing with the problems of the Reformation); Alexander VI (a Borgia, who practiced simony and nepotism and failed...