Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must communicate to you [Vichy Radio] a dispatch of the greatest importance. M. Pierre Laval has just arrived by parachute in a small village in Massachusetts. M. Laval apparently bears interesting proposals which he will not discuss with anyone except authorized representatives of the Separatist French Movement in America. . . . According to the very latest news, M. Laval is not able to find the representative of the suppressed French minorities because he is in Ireland with the American Expeditionary Force." Other developments...
...three exhausting weeks Stilwell led our undisciplined, untrained party through a maze of crisscrossing paths, alternately coaxing, urging, commanding them to hurry as we sought to escape the jaws of the gigantic Japanese encircling movement. On the second day of our trek our radio was destroyed and thereafter as far as information went we marched almost blindly...
...Nazis thought that grey, 61-year-old George Deckers knew something about the Belgian underground movement. Maybe he did, but George Deckers was not saying. They marched him off, backed him against a wall. A firing squad took aim. But the squad lowered its rifles and George Deckers was marched back to his cell for further questioning. Still he was silent. Again he was marched to the wall. Again the squad did not fire, and George Deckers was returned to his cell for grilling...
...said, "All they need is another sinking," now said, "Here they go!" The Government blocked all dollar exchange to prevent liquidation of Axis funds, ordered all troops in readiness. The Banco Germánico paid off all its depositors and employes. Some leaders of the Catholic-fascist Sinarquista movement whirled to a pro-war position and tried to get their puzzled stooges to follow their 180° turn. Axis stores were deserted and Axis nationals kept off the streets...
Died. George Antonius, 50, Cambridge-educated Christian Arab politician, power in the Arab Nationalist movement, author (The Arab Awakening); in Jerusalem...