Word: flee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only the peasants were afraid. "The nobility began to flee the country before a danger, not yet present, which their very flight would create." The frightened King tried to flee to Germany. The frightened Revolution imprisoned him, and "without an army, without an administration, without police, without laws, without a Treasury . . . was forced to make war on three frontiers." Terrified next by its own Terror, the Revolution gave itself up to Napoleon-a form of 19th-Century appeasement. But Napoleon too was a product of fear...
Closing of the 31 U.S. consulates in Europe severed the last thread by which U.S. businessmen kept some contact with an estimated $1,327,000,000 worth of holdings in Axis-controlled countries. Now hopeless were Jews who still hoped to flee from Germany to the U.S., for closed consulates give out no visas. Furthermore, in its new, hard-boiled foreign policy the U.S. was frowning heavily upon any more immigration, had dusted off an old order that visas should not be issued to any European refugees who were leaving close relatives behind them in Germany. Possible reason: such people...
...German counter to the invasion did not come at once. Last week the Nazis confined their outward Middle Eastern activity to bombing Alexandria twice, killing 500, making 50,000 flee the city on trucks, bicycles, goat carts. The Axis even went so far as to announce that the Syrian campaign was entirely a fight between the former Allies. It was that, but plenty more besides...
...most of the leading New York newspapers and magazines had to pack up on a day's notice and flee with their office boys, private papers, and a few of the staff somewhere west of the Mississippi, where the Times and the Herald Tribune had to dicker with the Emporia Gazette to use its presses and become two-page Kansas locals; if the Mirror and LIFE, without photographs, came out in Utah; if the Post were seized and George Backer, its publisher, and Dorothy Thompson were put in a concentration camp in the Catskills; if the Christian Science Monitor...
...true soldierly spirit even toward their German prisoners. A British Army sergeant captured by us promptly assisted us in treating our wounded." As a sort of reprisal the Germans announced that Major General Bernard Cyril Freyberg, commander of Crete's defenses, had been killed while "cravenly" attempting to flee Crete in a plane; the British denied...