Word: parts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later he was arrested twice by the Gestapo on suspicion of having played a part in underground activities. He was quickly released. But in the Gestapo jails, he was kept sleepless by the cries of agony from other prisoners. "I said to myself," he said later: "How can these same fellows now be so cruel who served under me in Cologne as good citizens and efficient policemen...
Only five months later, however, when Cologne had become part of the British zone, Adenauer was abruptly dismissed from office. British authorities charged unconvincingly that he had "not energetically carried out the orders of the military government, particularly regarding the housing of the people ..." Adenauer once more retired to his flowers...
...Grammos offensive was part of the government drive, launched at Vitsi three weeks ago, to wipe out the guerrillas this fall. The Communists had fought back hard. Even after being bombed and shelled, many stuck to their pinelog pillboxes, engaged the advancing government troops hand-to-hand. At nightfall, as a weird calm settled over the battlefields, U.N. observers spotted the dimmed lights of Albanian truck convoys moving up & down from the border, carrying off the wounded and bringing in reinforcements. Outside a Greek headquarters tent sat forlorn groups of Red prisoners awaiting interrogation. One of them, a former member...
Nagumo needed more impressive surroundings if the merry conversions were to continue. Said he to Shopkeeper Handa: "A truly religious person is ready to sacrifice his all to save other people's souls. Under the circumstances, it would be most noble on your part to sell your best clothing. Thus we shall be able to buy an altar...
CHESF began as a gleam in the eye of Pernambuco's Senator Apolonio Sales, Minister of Agriculture under the Vargas dictatorship. Sales saw Paulo Afonso as part of a larger, TVA-style plan for development of the whole valley, with irrigation, flood-control and sanitation schemes. He was swept out of office in the avalanche that toppled Vargas, but not before both CHESF and the Sao Francisco Valley Authority (for which plans are still incomplete) had been...