Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...southern border to Formosa and northern Indo-China. Next day, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Central Government troops entered Nanking. They were back in China's capital just seven years, nine months and five days since they had been forced to leave the city to a brutal fate that shook the world...
...reports reaching us of conditions under which the expulsion and exodus of Germans from new Poland have been carried out. Between 8,000,000 and 9,000,000 persons dwelt in these regions before the war. . . . Enormous numbers are unaccounted for. Where have they gone and what is their fate? ... It is not impossible that tragedy on a prodigious scale is imposing itself behind the iron curtain which at present divides Europe in twain...
...suddenly there is a knock at the door and heavily armed policemen appear. It may be that the father, son or friend sitting in the cottage is called out, taken away into the dark, and no one knows whether he would ever come back again or what is his fate...
...fate has forever been shaped between the hands of reason and spirit, now in collaboration, again in conflict. Now reason and spirit meet on final ground. If either or anything is to survive, they must find a way to create an indissoluble partnership...
Furthermore, three members of the family which controls Citroen were deported to Germany for noncollaboration, and of these two died in German concentration camps, while the fate of the third is not yet known here...