Word: furtherance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Why did the Germans hang on? Explained General Alexander: 1) for prestige -Italy, a former Ally, is the major territory outside Germany that is still held; 2) for morale-further retreat would affect the home front; 3) for supply-the industries of north Italy are still useful.
Britain and the U.S. backed Premier Said, who had refused them further concessions at the same time that he refused the Russians. From London the BBC beamed the British view to Iranians: "The Iranian Government decided to make no oil concessions until after the war. Sir Reader William Bullard, British...
China's Puzzles. And there was the further complication of Washington's peripatetic global emissaries whose powers, purposes and accreditation were often more baffling than any Chinese puzzle. There was Vice President Henry Wallace. He cocked a nutritional eye at China's permanently underfed people, bent an...
Honduran Ambassador Julian R. Caceres presided. At his right sat Under Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, known to the Latins for his toothy smile as El Hombre Diente-The Man Tooth. The Man Tooth listened to an interpreter repeat the Argentine proposal, smiled a tablewide smile. Caceres said copies...
Guatemalans went to the polls quietly, voted for a congress to support Presidential Candidate Juan José Arévalo, who was pledged to further reforms. Even the conservative minority conceded that the elections had been free.