Word: eves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the approval of the Allies, their cobelligerent, Italy, this week declared war against her ex-Axis ally, Japan. Said the Italian Foreign Affairs Ministry: "On the eve of the Potsdam conference . . . Italy thus takes up her post . . . in full equality of duties . . . striving at equality of rights." Said Alberto Tarchiani, Italian ambassador to Washington: "We hope soon to become Allies ourselves...
...eve of Bastille Day (July 14) the French Government made a revolutionary announcement: the guillotine, which like military conscription, is one of the fruits of the French Revolution, is about to go the way of the auto-da-fe as an instrument of human justice. Henceforth condemned Frenchmen will not have to lie down and bare their necks to the falling knife; they may, as soon as transportation and the French electric-power shortage permit, sit down in a shiny new, U.S.-made electric chair...
...election eve Churchill felt victory "in his bones," warned that "if there should be a landslide to the left, many countries on the Continent would slide, not into decent socialism, but into the violence of Communism. . . .If we go down, all the ninepins of Europe will fall." Then the Prime Minister breezed off to Hendaye, in the French Basque country, for a much needed rest...
Married. John Erskine, 65, best-selling romantic satirist (Adam & Eve, Influence of Women - And Its Cure); and Helen Worden, 49, journeywoman-writer and ex-New York World-Telegram reporter; he for the second time, she for the first; in Albuquerque, N.M., three days after his Reno divorce from Pauline Ives Erskine...
...eve of China's ninth year of war, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek spoke to the U.S. Said the Generalissimo, at his first Chungking press conference in almost four years...