Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vichy Minister of Interior (1941-42). Now, he was on trial for his life, charged with defeatism, lèse-patrie, the murder of French resisters, the hounding of French workers at the behest of the Nazi Reich. His accusers said that the Council of Resistance in the homeland had long ago condemned Pierre Pucheu to death. They cited repressive Vichy measures bearing Pierre Pucheu's signature. Presumably their most telling evidence was presented in camera, lest unknown Frenchmen in France suffer...
Quietly, New York's Senator Robert Wagner and Ohio's Robert Taft introduced a short resolution, asking that Congress reaffirm the 1922 U.S. approval of Palestine as a Jewish national homeland...
...likelihood last week the main units of Japan's fleet were based along the Jap lifeline which stretches from the homeland to The Netherlands East Indies, a line which passes through Palau and Yap, strong bases 470 and 750 miles off the coast of the Philippines. Sooner or later the U.S. would be in a position to strike at that line. It is there that the Jap fleet may make its last-ditch defense, when the U.S. fleet is 4,000 miles from Pearl Harbor...
...Even if the Japs lost Truk (which they will not until many foot soldiers have lost their lives taking it), or if Truk were bypassed, many bases remained for Admiral Koga's Navy: Singapore, Surabaya in Java, Balikpapan in Borneo, Saipan in the Marianas, Manila and the Japanese homeland bases...
Like most of the 20,000 Balts who managed to escape abroad before Soviet occupation, the Baltic diplomats in exile are bitterly anti-Russian, as bitterly anti-German. Whether the 1,100,000 Estonians, 1,900,000 Latvians, 2,800,000 Lithuanians who stayed in the homeland now prefer Russian or German rule is unknown. Only one thing seems certain: they will soon have Russian rule, autonomously or otherwise...