Word: proclaimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they seem, but last week they seemed more imperturbable than ever. After taking five and a half long years of war, work and worry in their stride, they now planned to control their V-day whoop & holler. Some fine day soon, the King or Prime Minister would solemnly proclaim the official victory-and the rest of that day Britons would be expected to go about their business as usual. Next day would be a duly designated national holiday, a proper time for celebration. No extra supplies of beer or spirits will be released by the Government for the occasion...
...empire. The consciousness arose from the persistent (and unduly alarming) rumors that France would be asked to put some of her strategic overseas bases under international "trusteeship." To the Consultative Assembly hurried Foreign Minister Georges Bidault to defend his country's colonial record, challenge its critics, and proclaim a new deal for an empire second only to Britain...
...Germany. Did the Russians intend to occupy eastern Germany alone? Anything short of an agreement for the tripartite occupation of Germany would proclaim the Big Three meeting, whatever fancy talk it used to cover up with, a failure...
...free peoples of the world gather this week to proclaim again the gospel of peace on earth. In a log hut deep in a forest north of Oslo, Norway, a man who has done as much as any other to keep Christian hope alight in the darkness of occupied Europe will celebrate Christmas, as he has for two years past, a solitary prisoner. Eivind Josef Berggrav resigned his title and position as Bishop of Oslo and Primate of Norway's State Lutheran Church, on Feb. 24, 1942. Arrested two months later by Puppet Dictator Vidkun Quisling, he has ever...
Every few hundred yards, signs in English and French proclaim: "Red Ball convoys only. All others keep...