Word: orders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Joan's story in a picture book designed to make better patriots of French youngsters. "Open this book, my dear children," he wrote in 1896, "with piety, in memory of the humble peasant girl who is the patron saint of France . . . Her story will tell you that in order to conquer, you must believe you will conquer. Remember this on the day when your country will have need of all your courage." In 1911, he finished the six Joan paintings...
...wants his customers to think that's just what it is. But the atmosphere is deceiving. Blum's sells more candy (780,000 lbs. last year in its San Francisco store alone) than any other retail store in the world, and has a list of mail-order customers that reads like Who's Who (among them: Eisenhower, Noel Coward, Jim Farley, Lauren Bacall...
...profound effect on the nationalist movement. Full of promises, the conquerors set up a puppet government of nationalist leaders. Collaborators soon found the promises worthless, but in 1945 they did not regret their move. The Japanese surrender caught British and Dutch troops unprepared. To keep order in the Islands, the Allies were forced to recognize existing Republican sovereignty in Java and Sumatra...
...complete blockade of Republican territory, the Dutch were playing on time--snipping off pieces of nationalist holdings and converting them to pro-Dutch states. On December 19, Dutch paratroops descended on Jokjakaria and captured the heads of the Republican government, saying that it was no longer capable of keeping order in its territory or preventing violations of the Dutch border...
Enraged, the Dutch rejected both flatly, saying that nothing but chaos would result. They did not mention Republican President Hatta's proposal in November inviting Dutch troops to restore order if his government could not eliminate violence within two months after recognition...