Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suggest General Sir Gerald Templer who, in such a short time, has achieved so much in working to clear Communism in the Malayan Peninsula? Without his ability the Communists will certainly . . . overrun all of Southeast Asia...
...Paratrooper General "Papa" Ramcke, reminded me of the circumstances of his capture by our 13th Regiment of the 8th Division . . . on Sept. 19, 1944. Word was received that General Ramcke desired to surrender. He and his staff were in a bunker 75 feet underground, on the Crozon Peninsula outside Brest . . . At 1830 hours, Brigadier General Charles D. W. Canham . . . appeared to accept surrender. Very haughtily, Ramcke demanded of Canham his credentials. Canham pointed to the accompanying Tommy-gun and BAR men and replied: "These are my credentials...
...Russians tacked a hard condition on to another 1950 promise: until a peace treaty is signed between the Communist states and Japan,* they will not turn over to the Chinese the powerful naval base of Port Arthur, on Manchuria's Liaotung Peninsula. Beyond these specifics, the communiques said only that other "important political and economic questions" had been discussed. At least ten of Chou's top 14 advisers remained behind in Moscow, presumably to work out the Sino-Russian program...
Adventurous doctors could make a good guess that the job would take them to a Mohammedan court,, somewhere on the dry but oil-rich Arabian peninsula. By week's end, six well-qualified couples had applied...
...outset of the 1948 campaign, Griffiths took on the job of wresting party control away from the conservative Democratic Old Guard. He and his wife Martha beat the bushes through upstate Michigan and the Upper Peninsula, stopping where no old-line Democrat had ventured for years. Along their trail they left scores of new party outposts. The outposts did not count much in general elections, but they could send delegates to the state Democratic conventions-and seizing control of the party was the coalition's first objective...