Word: extention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Limited Extent. Gist of the 77,000-word, 17-point indictment was that Erich von Manstein had permitted atrocities in areas under his command; had condoned the shooting, gassing and drowning of Jews, gypsies and other minorities, the execution of Russian soldiers, political commissars and civilians, and the deportation of Russians to Germany for slave labor. The defense tried to show that there was little to connect their client personally with any of these deeds. The slaughter of Jews, contended his British and German lawyers, was carried out by an SS unit attached to Manstein's command only...
...atrocities, such as the use of gas wagons painted like carnival caravans which were employed by SS troops for mass executions. "Obviously some people acted differently from the way I expected them to act," he snapped. "A commander in chief can control his subordinates only to a very limited extent...
...sounded a lot like the old Bossy, and, to some extent, it was. "I'm getting rusty . . . I'm 53 now," explained Bossy, "but I'm still no diplomat...
...generally assumed that all satellites must be treated alike by the Russians without any degrees of dependence. There have been signs that they are willing to accept from China a much looser form of attachment than is required from the East European satellites. Apart from the vast extent and remoteness of China, the fact that the Chinese Communists have had an army and territory of their own for more than twenty years . . . puts the Chinese in a different category from all other non-Soviet Communists...
Back to the Old Trade. As a novice in his order, Fray José Francisco de Guadalupe had been startled to learn the extent of the chronic shortage of clergy in Roman Catholic South America; he found that on the continent there were areas half as large as Spain without a priest, some 40,000 parishes without pastors. His decision was to go back as a priest to the crowds and microphones he had given up. Since then he has carried his recruiting and fund-raising campaign into Venezuela, Chile, Colombia and Argentina...