Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he followed two other crack men to a soldier's fate - Brigadier General Harold H. ("Pursuit") George had been killed last year in an accident at Darwin - air men spoke for him the air's understated epitaph of full praise: "He was a good man to have around...
...Russia and Poland, they were released. Provided with Red Cross funds, the two organized a Polish relief committee. Using this project as a front, they began distributing leaflets attacking the Soviet government and urging a separate peace between Russia and Nazi Germany. This transpired at the time when the fate of the United Nations hinged on the Battle of Stalingrad. Consequently Ehrlich and Alter were again brought to trial, convicted, and this time shot...
...European charter" is the propagandistic excuse for the comedown from the Herrenvolk idea. Said one Nazi paper: "The difference between the Atlantic Charter and the now newly formed European Charter is that England has no National Socialist Party [to] guide the fate of continental countries...
Outside India. There were many prompt to claim that Gandhi, the politician, had not only dried up his sources of world sympathy but was washed up politically as well. The blunt truth was that the Western world had always been less interested in the fate of India than in the tug of war between the British Raj and such articulate Indians as Mohandas Gandhi. Now, once the excitement of the fast was over, the West was not greatly concerned about the life or death of a shriveled little man in a loincloth...
...occasion, she has had to combat the wiles of another type of women. This happened when a group of service, men on the way to a party given for them in one of Boston's dignified hotels were accosted. The embarrassed men thanked her for saving them from "the fate worse than death," while the hotel manager soon reported the additional of two house detectives...