Word: fondly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...charge of censorship Vargas put young Civis Muller, an officer of Brazil's Federal District Police. Censor Muller, ambitious, fond of authority, but with no newspaper experience whatever, issued a series of exacting regulations, some of them virtually impossible to obey, put censors in every Brazilian editor's office, large or small, in the offices of such foreign news agencies as United Press, Associated Press, Britain's Reuter's, France's Havas, Germany's Deutsches Nachrichten Bureau...
...Rome, the Pope spoke to the resident Cardinals. His mind went back, too, to a conversation three years ago with a big man in Washington, a fond talk of peace on earth when there was still peace on earth. He thanked Franklin Roosevelt for his "gratifying Christmas message," and for sending such an outstanding man to be "the first Ambassador of the provisional Embassy at the Vatican." Damning "evil" Russia, praising "worthwhile" Finland, he asked the world to ponder, on the night when the angels sang, that man has too many instruments of death, too few of mercy and justice...