Word: tacit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week's legal action followed reports that the gold, by German demand on Vichy, was being shipped by airplane from Dakar to Marseille for delivery to the Nazis. Aim of the suit (which had the tacit support of Washington): to establish that if the Belgian gold goes to Germany, France will have to make gold from its own gold (estimated at $500,000,000) "frozen" in the U.S. by Washington decree...
Either for the Franco-German record or because of the resentment lingering from Oran, this tacit invitation was received with a surly growl by Vichy. Said Minister of Colonies Rear Admiral René Platon: "Despite British assurances that these countries were to be handed back to us, I am convinced Britain wanted to appropriate our colonies as a sort of barter instrument in the event a compromise peace was offered them...
...become operative, ICC's plan must first be approved in Federal court, then be ratified by 67% of the company's security holders. Last week Judge Robert N. Wilkin gave tacit approval to the plan, by overruling objections to it. Tired of fighting, C. & O. indicated it would put no obstacle in the way of ratification...
With Japan's tacit acquiescence Thailand began whittling at French Indo-China from another direction. On the lame charge that French bombing planes had tried to raid Siamese towns, Thailand warned all French residents to leave the Cambodian border area, started a series of air raids against Cambodia, occupied three border districts. Nationalist organizations, clamoring for the return of Thailand's lost province, hailed "the beginning...
...Vatican radio last fortnight shattered the silence it has maintained on the subject of Italy's ally, Germany, ever since Italy entered World War II. The democracies had feared the silence meant tacit approval of the Axis. But the broadcast condemned Naziism in the strongest terms the Vatican had used since the invasion of Poland. Text for the castigation was an editorial from Catholic Spain-which Pius XII is presumably as anxious as U. S. and British Catholics to keep out of the arms of the Axis. The Madrid Alcázar had written: "National Socialism is primarily...