Word: protectorate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mohandas K. Gandhi, who said this, had few followers in Occupied Europe last week. But Josef Terboven, "protector" of Norway, had many Nazis who agreed with him when he said...
...Czecho-Slovakia the Nazi "protector," Reinhard Heydrich, kept hustling trussed-up Czechs to the execution walls. Near Oslo 500 Norwegians fought a pitched battle with Nazi troops. While Leader Eugène Deloncle of the pro-Nazi French Cagoulards was in training to fight with the Germans in Russia, someone murdered his secretary in Paris. The Nazis were said to have shot twelve Rumanian Generals who were unwilling to continue fighting Russia. In Yugoslavia open warfare continued between Nazi mechanized divisions and the Chetnik guerrillas. (Reports told of a Serbian "Joan of Arc" who led an attack on the town...
Last week patients kept traveling to the little town of Ibicui where the doctor was living in a shack, maintaining his calm bedside manner among his several wives and dozens of children, including two albinos. The doctor's latest protector was the local police commissioner. He had provided Tupá Mbaé with a dispensary which was also the police commissioner's home, police station and customs post...
Died. Charles R. Apted, 67, mild-mannered, bespectacled head of Harvard "yard cops" for 39 years; in Cambridge, Mass. Protector of boys as well as property, he gently dissolved student "riots," bailed the too-high-spirited out of jail at unearthly hours, restored to Yale the Harvard-snatched bulldog, Handsome Dan, restored to Boston's State House the wooden "sacred cod," covered up for the culprits...
...empire. Not only bits of Africa would be hers; she would rule Mare Nostrum and its shores. Italian ships would ply back & forth between Italy and Cyrenaica, Tripolitania, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco; to the east they would sail to the gates of Islam, which would recognize Italy as its protector. Italian settlers would occupy all the fertile shores of Mare Nostrum, and Mare Nostrum would be Italian forever...