Word: token
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...better known as Reza Shah Pahlavi. Ever since his Government signed a trade agreement with Adolf Hitler's in April last year Germans have poured into Iran. Last week Britain and Russia turned heat on the Shah to start them pouring out. By week's end a token trickle of some 60 out of an estimated 4,000 to 5,000 had dribbled over the Turkish border...
...Britain and the U.S. that would follow an attack on Singapore or the Indies, her most likely next move would seem to be on Thailand. Under pressure, the Government of Premier Luang Pitul Songgram granted Japan a 10,000,000-baht ($3,600,000) loan, recognized Manchukuo as a token of friendship. (It was carefully explained that the recognition of Manchukuo had been chosen as a lesser evil than recognizing Puppet Wang Ching-wei at Nanking.) Japan continued pressing demands-demands which, if accepted, could end only in the capitulation of Thailand...
...tell your President, your industrialists, your business men, your newspaper men, that Argentina wants to be a self-made nation. And tell them that we shall welcome with open arms every expression of North American culture, so long as these are expressions of North America herself. ... By the same token, we shall send to your country our own national image, shaped in the ingenuous molds of our young, but nonetheless unmistakably Argentine, culture...
...securities markets. To Jesse Jones, who henceforth will hold the paper of Britain's firms in the U.S., it meant a lot of interesting new companies in his private empire. But to the Morgenthau theory that Britain should cut loose all U.S. holdings as a token of good faith before accepting Lend-Lease aid, the deal apparently wrote finis...
...Nazi radio blared calls to the crusade against Communism. The Nazi propaganda machine went into action on all fronts. To the chancelleries of Europe went word that Adolf Hitler demanded from each "friendly" country a token force to free Europe from the Communist menace...