Word: unite
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German woman and her two children - a boy and a girl - walked toward their house in a village near the Rhine. A young U.S. officer, whose unit had commandeered the house, saw them coming and barked: "Go on, go on! Beat it!" The woman stopped and tried to explain in German , that she wanted something in the house. Again the officer ordered her away. The boy cried. The girl ran past the officer, marched up the front steps, and got a doll's buggy. As the woman and the children walked off, the officer turned to U.P. Correspondent...
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, accompanied by Presidential Secretary Stephen Early and rows of high-polished brass, journeyed to a historic World War I battlefield last week to honor the World War II heroes of Bastogne, the 101st Airborne Division. To the 101st went the Army's Distinguished Unit Citation, never before awarded to an entire Army division. (Three Marine divisions have received the Navy's Presidential Unit Citation...
...details of that report might be incorrect, but there appeared to be no doubt about the general intention: Austria, which after World War I was too small an economic unit to get along, after World War II would be divided into still smaller fragments. Presumably the partitioning would be a temporary measure, but its effects would last long after the period of occupation was over...
From the Quirinale, an angry column marched to the Viminale (Government headquarters). There a delegation of its leaders, including Unità's fiery Editor Velio Spano, who is also a member of the Communist Party's Central Executive Committee, handed Premier Ivanoe Bonomi an ultimatum: immediate and drastic reforms, or resign. Said Bonomi: "This is no time for me to desert...
...speedup of the purge. The Communists did a triple political somersault: 1) they announced that the slain demonstrator was not a Communist: 2) most of the Communists at the Colosseum, it was said, were not Party members, but belonged to the Movimento Communista (Communist Movement*); 3) they ordered Unità's Editor Spano to confess that he had acted not as a Party man but as an "individual...