Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army can determine, the first use of D for Day, H for Hour was in Field Order No. 8, of the First Army, A.E.F., issued on Sept. 7, 1918, which read: "The First Army will attack at H-Hour on D-Day with the object of forcing the evacuation of the St. Mihiel salient...
Radio Tokyo announced that many Government offices are being transferred to the prefectures (provinces). Apparent object: to forestall the paralysis that might come with an air blitz on the capital...
Time to Re-Tire. A Dixon, Calif. newspaper ran a want ad: "Owner of a truck would like to correspond with a widow who owns two tires. Object matrimony. Send picture of tires...
Yugoslavia. There, as elsewhere, the Allies' object was: ". . . to beat the enemy as soon as possible, to gather all forces together for that purpose in priority to any other purpose." For that reason, the Allies had recognized the ascendancy of Communist Marshal Tito and his Partisans. Churchill recorded the already known fact that young King Peter had fired his exiled Premier Bozhidar Purich and his War Minister, Chetnik General Draja Mihailovich (who "has not been fighting the enemy"). Then Churchill recognized a long-range, sometimes overlooked fact about multiracial Yugoslavia...
...this country. But I do think at the same time that we have a right-to insist that our own ideas be placed before our own people. ... I think those of us who are interested in the assurance of adequate channels of domestic information have ... a right to object to the dumping of any outside publications in Canada on a basis which gives them any special advantages over our own publications...