Word: hangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Netherlands did not arrest its black-shirted onetime waterworks engineer, Anton Adrian Missert (TIME, April 22), but old Dutch General Jonkheer W. Roell, a retired fire-eater who once commanded the Army, growled that shootin' was too good for traitors. He would hang 'em. The Netherlands declared a state of siege, began raiding Dutch Nazis' homes for arms and uniforms...
...Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin Roosevelt, personally presented by President Roosevelt last autumn. Luxembourg's canny, genial Foreign Minister Joseph Bech (who resigned as Premier because he thought he had held the job too long), likes to swap stories with newspapermen. The newspapermen like to hang out in chess-playing Herr Klopp's hotel at Remich and watch the Germans across the river...
...part of Export's application, Examiner Leasure deferred an answer. Overruled was a request that the steamship line be specifically authorized to hang on to control of the air line. Reason: That question can be decided by CAA later...
...that we should do the same and keep up with the Joneses. But the Navy admits it has "no definite information" about Japan's building program, and our fleet still has a marked superiority over Nippon's. So long as we maintain that edge, and so long as we hang on to our iron-clad island defense line in the Pacific, which centers on Oahu, "the most formidable maritime fortress and naval outpost in the world," we are safe from the Land of the Rising Sun. In the words of Major Fielding Eliot, America's prolific number one military critic...
...inciting broadcasts at the Arabs in the Near East, British Broadcasting Corp. decided to have a go at the blighters. The first BBC bulletin in Arabic was not too bright: it told how the British had executed twelve prominent Arabs for riotous assembly. Since then BBC has got the hang of the Eastern propaganda game. It now issues The Arabic Listener for fortnightly distribution wherever Arabic is heard by radio...