Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was a good chance that this meant that Admiral Leahy would come home, that diplomatic relations with Vichy would be broken, that the De Gaulle movement would be recognized-that French islands and territories would be seized...
Millions of Hindus follow gnarled little Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who favors pacifist isolationism, not as a means of hurting Britain's war effort, but in order to keep the Nationalist movement alive. Millions of other Hindus, including many members of Gandhi's own Indian National Congress party, watching Adolf Hitler's approach to India beyond the Caucasus and Japan's approach beyond Burma, are prepared to fight against the Axis-if Indian self-government seems likely. Other millions are already fighting hard, in factories and in Britain's Middle Eastern ranks. And many millions feel...
...from being merely a stunt, an Adler-Draper recital is genuinely expressive and musicianly. The pair perform solos in turn-Adler with a movement from a Bach concerto, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, Ravel's Bolero, etc., and Draper with taps to a Scarlatti pastorale, a Bach fantasia, The Blue Danube waltz. When they get going together, their act is a production...
Personnel Department B's special function was "to comb the world for potential 'Quislings.' " Goebbels, with his fat dossiers on the vulnerabilities of all foreign notables, believed that treason was a surer method than revolution. In Belgium, for instance, Rosenberg's Degrelle movement failed; but Personnel Department B obtained the services of Henri de Man, with his influence over Leopold; and Lieut. Dombret of the Belgian General Staff sold Germany Belgium's secret plans for defense long before the war broke out. Agents of the Department-B type also got such unbribable...
Russia's most serious problem is that of keeping supply lines open, he continned. Because of the recent decentralizatien movement of preducation centers, they have, of reach of the Navia at present, scufficient law materials and industrial facilities to resist a long siege...