Word: rid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Warning from the East. Moscow's Pravda sounded a warning: "Strange reports are coming from Belgium. . . . Patriots consider that Belgium will be finally freed when she is rid of her fifth column . . . inspired by General van Overstraeten [Chief Aide-de-Camp, close friend and adviser of King Leopold] ... an active agent of Nazi Germany. . . . The fact that he is at liberty while patriots are being disarmed is ... remarkable...
Retiring from his post, Surplus Property Boss Will Clayton last week turned in an accounting, 294 pages long. Its chief news: in four months, the new and still creaking machinery to dispose of surplus war property had got rid of only $85,007,000 worth. This was a fair bite out of the $465,207,000 in surplus property now on hand, including $19,830,000 in motor vehicles (see cut), but hardly a nibble at the mountain of surpluses ahead...
...withdrawal was a slap at the U.S. as well as at Britain, because the State Department had confidently counted on Russia to help get rid of the plan. Now the question of an all-powerful air authority was dead-for the time...
...uproar swelled, the homeward-bound Congressmen wearily realized that the price for getting rid of Will Clayton had been too high. One of their first jobs after the election recess will probably be to patch up the bill...
Rumania's General Ion Antonescu & friends, and Germany's economic expert Karl Clodius, had already disappeared into Russian jails. Glad to be rid of the embarrassment, his country had now gleefully handed over the former Rumanian dictator, who would presumably be held for a great trial of war criminals...