Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans invaded Russia- Thorez stopped whistling the Internationale, started whistling La Marseillaise. From Moscow, where he and his family had a two-room apartment, he broadcast to the French Resistance. He urged cooperation with De Gaulle. But General de Gaulle remembered that Thorez was a military deserter, would not permit him to return to liberated France...
This action put General de Gaulle on the spot. If he did not permit the seating of Thorez, he could be attacked for arbitrary interference by the executive in legislative affairs. But Thorez' return would give a developing leftist opposition to De Gaulle its shrewdest leadership...
...class will be very indefinite until its members have arrived, and no definite estimate can be given. I view of the unstable conditions, chiefly the larger number than expected of returning upperclassmen planning to live in the Houses, College officials seen pleased at the new arrangement which will permit the Freshmen to live together in their own quarters and still retain connection with House activities through the eating plan...
...first time that Miss Smith has spoken on a socially significant topic in the city in which her book was banned. Her first appearance here was her address to the Boston Book Fair last night. Life Magazine is covering her trip, but College officials have refused to permit pictures to be taken on University property...
...Most Paris museum collections were well cared for by the Nazis. Reasons: 1) they intended to use Paris as a German playground after the war; 2) German withdrawal from Paris was forced too quickly to permit pillage...