Word: musts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Passed a bill to admit 205,000 displaced persons in the next two years and permit 15,000 refugees already in the U.S. to remain. Because the bill stipulated that eligible DPs must have arrived in the Allied occupation zones of Germany before Dec. 22, 1945 (thus excluding many Jews fleeing 1946 Polish pogroms), and set aside special quotas for farmers, Baits & Volksdeutsche, it was denounced as discriminatory against Jews and Catholics...
...negotiations got nowhere. One obstacle: the Dutch demanded immediate disbanding of the Republican army; the republic insisted that it must keep a defense army until the Dutch have agreed to a plan for local self-rule. The Dutch accused the Javanese Republican leaders of designs on all of Indonesia; Republican leaders accused the Dutch of trying to restore colonial rule...
...week's end, Jews and Arabs had not yet agreed to get together at the same conference table. But both sides decided to send "working parties" of experts to Rhodes. "Negotiations are still in preliminary stages," said Bernadotte. "We must move gradually-a hasty step could spoil the prospects." One big obstacle still blocked the way to a possible settlement: the Jews said they would never give up Israeli sovereignty, the Arabs said they would never recognize...
...caught and tortured Sybil to extract information about the underground. At one point they tied her to a stake and suspended her daughter Dawn over a blazing fire. Dawn shouted: "Mummy, I love you very much!" In the family code it meant that Dawn would not talk and Sybil must not talk either. The Japanese halted the fire torture in time, but they invented others for Sybil: beating, branding, dripping water. By the time a British captain found her at war's end, her skull, jaw and spine had been broken, her legs temporarily paralyzed...
...Kathigasu was flown to Britain, where the King gave her the George Medal for civilian heroism. Ten operations failed to knit together her broken body. During two years, in & out of British hospitals, she laboriously wrote her story, to be published under her underground code name, "Sab." "The world must know what kind of people these Japanese are," said Sybil. "Already memories are growing short...