Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Steel Tycoon Taylor was first accredited to Rome at Christmas 1939, the purposes were obvious: 1) to help Pope and President pursue (in the Roosevelt phrase) "parallel endeavors for peace" during the "phony war"; 2) to tune in on the reports Pius XII got from his diplomatic corps, then the best in Europe. But today Hitler's armies have packed most of the papal legates back to Rome, and the Vatican, with many more Catholics living under the swastika, has become more and more neutral while the U.S. grew more and more belligerent...
...press Mr. Roosevelt gave a free headline: "President Quotes Lincoln and Draws Parallel." Many a U.S. newspaper used the headline; and the New York (tabloid) Daily Mirror decided to give Mr. Roosevelt a check for a tyro head-writer's daily pay, sent him $5.94, deducting 6? for Social Security...
...momentous journey of all his 200,000-odd miles of White House travel. He had been gone from Washington 13 days. For most of that time his whereabouts had been unknown to his country. He brought back his half of the unknown fruits of a conference that had no parallel. The U.S., though not at war, had conferred through the head of its Government with Great Britain, a nation at war, on how Nazi Germany was to be defeated, had further agreed on "certain common principles" as a basis for a future peace, a better world. And fundamental...
...Marshal Tukhachevsky, the German commander in this area, Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, decided to abandon the fundamental pattern of Blitzkrieg -cutting as if with a knife through one strategic spot (as at Sedan) and then encircling. Instead he dug in, as if with a gigantic fork, sending five parallel prongs into the defense area. Each pair of prongs had to reduce island after island between them...
...Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, the freezing order had included Chinese assets, to prevent their use by Japanese owners, and to facilitate the Chinese exchange problem. Big chore ahead: to close the entire Hemisphere to the Japanese. Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles this week intimated that the U.S. would welcome parallel economic measures by other American nations against Japan. Mexico's President Manuel Avila Camacho warned that an attack on any other American country might lead to Mexico's entry into the war. The Hemisphere was apparently falling into line behind U.S. policy. The U.S. and the Japanese were...