Word: obeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...warning only was the Nanking decree. Neither Britain nor the U. S. speaks to Wang Ching-wei: they could not obey his order without granting tacit recognition to his Government. As long as the seven newsmen stay inside Shanghai's International Settlement, they are safe from arrest. The six who are U. S. citizens cannot be deported anyhow without a trial before the U. S. District Court for China...
...momentum two months ago, this unanswerable man was approached. At first he was reluctant to undertake its leadership, but, as when Caesar turned down the crown, reluctance only teased and whetted those who offered it. They became insistent. He had reservations. He refused to build a party which would obey the Army. He refused to consider forming a party which would merely be a combination of the old corrupt parties; that, he said, would be as futile as "the taking away of the partitions and the paper doors between the rooms of a Japanese house." Finally he reluctantly agreed...
...Alexandria, Egypt, the procedure was less dramatic but equally effective. There lay the French battleship Lorraine, the heavy cruisers Tourville and Duquesne, two other cruisers and several smaller ships. Their commanders were simply told that they would not be allowed to obey the Pétain Government's order to come home, on pain of being sunk by gunfire and torpedoes launched from concealed tubes on shore. While the French digested this ultimatum, over came some Italian bombers on a raid and the French ships joined the British in putting up a hot anti-aircraft barrage. A vote...
Norwegians, Danes, Dutch, Belgians and French will starve. Then the U. S. will have to face its toughest relief problem: to obey its heart or its head-to help Hitler by feeding Hitler-ruled Europe, or to let Europe starve...
This week that fate was sealed, so far as France's new Government was concerned (see p. 20). But how many officers would obey orders issued under Axis duress and surrender their ships remained a major question. Bulk of the French Navy was believed to be in the Eastern Mediterranean. When the commandant of the naval base at Toulon announced that he and his men would fight on regardless of the armistices, that seemed a clue to the temper of French naval forces in the West. The French had been operating since September under direction of the British Admiralty...