Word: nationale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The U.S. had hoped that, after a half century of democratic American tutelage, the Philippines had been made safer for democracy than any other country in Asia; last week's national elections for a new President and Congress rudely upset that hope. Not everywhere were conditions as bad as...
When Nationalist authorities whiffed the brewing plot, they promptly ordered CNAC (China National Aviation Corp.) and CATC (Central Air Transport Corp.) to shift all operations from Hong Kong to Formosa, where Chiang Kai-shek's forces could exert closer control. But at dawn one day last week, eleven planeloads...
Konstantin Rokossovsky, who only the week before had been a marshal of the Red army and a Soviet citizen, settled down in Warsaw to his new job as Marshal of Poland and Minister of National Defense. In Paris, the journal La Croix mused: "What would our Communist papers say if...
Polish papers had not very much to say, except to welcome Poland's new military boss obsequiously. The Red propaganda mill promptly ground out some fetching facts to fit Poland's new made-in-Russia national hero. "We receive the news of his appointment with great emotion, that...
Vice President Alben W. Berkley and Fiancee Mrs. Carleton S. Hadley bore up remarkably well under the strain of a full pre-wedding week. Recovering from flu in a St. Louis, hospital, Mrs. Hadley made every minute count by approving the final details of her trousseau (a blue wedding dress...