Word: flee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ponce acted as though he were keeping the government in trust for Ubico and fired very few of his men. According to one story, Ubico himself did not flee to Mexico, as first reported, but simply retired to a private house on the capital's Fourteenth...
Before the end of 1944 every German now in France will be killed, made prisoner or obliged to flee. It is up to ourselves to shape our future...
...clandestine radios for orders from abroad : "Roger, your laundry will be ready Tuesday. . . . Jacques Laporte, please immediately deliver your fresh cakes to grandmother in Paris. . . ." In northern France, just behind the invasion fronts, saboteurs attacked the railways, did enough damage to enrage the Germans. Collaborationists began to flee; some were killed. Best estimate of the various undergrounds' total armed strength: 200.000. State of Vichy. The men of Vichy began to split. Marshal Philippe Petain. Chief of State, had just returned from a tour of bombed French cities. Propped up by occasional doses of benzedrine...
...Europe's most ruthless diplomats. Pro-German and anti-Russian, he smoothly signed ten-year nonaggression pacts with both countries, smartly propagandized Poland as the balance-of-power nation in Europe. He fled to Rumania when the Nazis invaded, was caught when he tried to flee that equally occupied country. Died. Juliana Cutting, 73, New York's premier social secretary ; after a stroke ; in Manhattan. The granddaughter of Banker Robert Livingston Cutting, she made her debut in 1890; when the family fortune faded, set herself up as a party maker to Society. Blue-eyed, blue-blooded Miss Cutting...
...Fight or Flee? The Germans could not seem to make up their minds whether they would defend Rome or not. A Berlin radio announcement that Rome would positively be defended was contradicted by Adolf Hitler's own newspaper. The Volkischer Beobachter declared-perhaps to prepare the home front for more bad news -that the retreat would continue to North Italy. The Vichy radio bleated: "The capture of Rome would bring no new element in the conduct of the war except the prestige.. . . The German High Command has stated on many previous occasions that it would accept battle only...