Word: takings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cannot Fight On." West Berlin's mayor begged the U.S., British and French to let Western police take over the protection of all railways in their sectors. U.S. Brigadier General Frank L. Howley called the Western commandants into session to discuss what he called an "intolerable situation." To avoid international complications just before the Paris Big Four meeting, the commanders hedged. Western police, they decided, could intervene only to restore order when individual fights got out of hand...
...able to move fast enough toward their goals. Said one high-ranking American in Rome: "Unless we do more than we have in the past year, unless we move faster, we might as well walk out of here in 1953 [when EGA ends] and let the Communists take over...
Konni Zilliacus did not take so philosophic a view. Last week he announced that he planned to run again for his House of Commons seat as an Independent Laborite. Said he darkly: "The fight for the soul of the Labor Party, which is also the fight for peace, has now begun...
...Commander Yeh Shao issued a proclamation declaring the city to be in a state of war, advised citizens who could to return to their native villages. One member of the legislative yuan criticized Yeh. "It is bad to talk like this," he said. "If we think the Communists may take Canton, they'll take all China...
...from building a gun post in the middle of the bowling green, by showing them a much better strategic position," said Mrs. Hawkings, "and I saved my bed of anchusas and the bushes of weigela and nemophila from being dug up for a trench, by showing them how to take better shelter down by the lily pond. I got them so sympathetic for my garden that they even held the flowers apart so they could thread barbed wire without breaking the blooms...