Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long voyage home. Last week, British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin declared that the Mexicans had deported only 76. After some hemming & hawing, Mexico's Department of the Interior had an explanation: the figure 486 had been a mistake; besides, those who stayed on did not "menace or threaten [the] national security...
...Freshmen Threaten...
Argentine newspapers approved the deal, but one grumbled that the price was "exorbitant." Foreign investors, who had seen the Perón Government seize one British-owned utility and threaten to expropriate the rest, breathed easier...
...Chiang Kai-shek's demand that the Communists "withdraw from areas where they threaten peace and obstruct communications," the Yenan Communist radio retorted: "What Chiang means, in a nutshell, is 'Countrymen, prepare for slaughter; it is all for your own good.'" The Communist answer: a "mobilization" call (for an army of 1,000,000 regulars, 2,000,000 guerrillas) and announcement of a "provisional supreme administration for democratic [Communist] Manchuria...
Unanimous approval was given by the meeting to the message which read in part, "recent weeks have seen outbreaks of fascist violence against the Negro people such as threaten the lives of thousands of their race and the civil rights of all Americans--we urge that you use all possible law enforcement agencies to prevent further lynchings...