Word: regional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...free acceptance of that settlement by the people immediately concerned." Says Lippmann: "This principle gives to the people inhabiting any strategic point upon the world's surface-say Panama, Gibraltar-an absolute veto on any arrangement designed to use that point for the security of a nation, a region, or of the world...
...treaty of Lausanne, fixing the country's borders, set up the small sanjak (sub-prefecture) of Alexandretta, between Syria and Turkey, as an "autonomous" region under French control. To the Turks, this Levantine Sudetenland, which they called the Hatay, was a symbol of humiliation. In 1939, Menemencioglu used France's fear of war and need of an ally to win back the Hatay for Turkey, thus forever endearing himself to all Turks...
Most Frenchmen went about their business pretty much as usual. But organized partisans stirred and struck. Many towns and villages of central and southern France flew the Tricolor. The core of unrest lay in the region around Vichy; there, by Nazi decree, all civilian motor and bicycle traffic came to a halt...
Last year, at a jungle base of the Air Transport Command far up in Assam province on the Burma border, a group of soldiers whipped together a vaudeville show. It was named from a form of war neurosis peculiar to the region where the hazards of flying the Hump are in every man's mind-Hump-Happy. Last week Hump-Happy was on tour. From its purely local start, it had humped through hundreds of performances on the jungle circuit. From Burma's border to the African Gold Coast it is the Army's No. 1 entertainment...
...rubles for Red Army weapons.*The one Comrade Stalin liked the best and the one Pravda featured came from gnarled, patriarchal Ferapont Golovaty, father of four, grandfather of ten, keeper of the bees and assistant chief of a collective farm in the Saratov region...