Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speech at Compiègne, De Gaulle cried: "It is necessary that the efforts of the old Europe and those of America be joined to put our poor old world back on its feet. This means, with out any doubt, that the U.S. lend us large and prolonged help in the economic field [but, more than that], it is clear that their support should be spread at the same time to the field of defense in as precise and explicit a manner as the Marshall Plan does on credit and imports...
...Leader of German Women and her husband fled from Berlin. Caught in a crossfire between German and U.S. troops, she was wounded five times. They picked up the youngest child, took refuge with Princess Pauline, who said that she cared for Frau Heiszmeyer "as one would help a wounded animal...
Fawzi Bey had yet to prove that he could capably command a force of many thousands. So far his battles had ended in defeats: by the French in Syria, by the British in Palestine, and in Iraq (where he fought with Nazi help) during World War II. A British plane strafed, and almost killed him, in Iraq. He went to Germany to recuperate. There he helped stir up the Arab world against the British, married a German girl (his third wife), was held by the conquering Russians until February...
...riot matter much anyhow: all available wall space was covered with pictures of the President-("Help Perón -Vote for His Men") and La Señora ("The Standard-Bearer of the Workers"). All the while, the radio blared: "A vote for Perón is a vote for Social Justice...
Sunday-School Teacher Barbara Jo Walker, Miss America of 1947, left New York by plane for Johannesburg, where she will help pick a Miss South Africa...