Word: war
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This fall, the Western Union land forces under General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny will hold war games to show how well the Western Union landlubbers can work together...
...communism is not checked in China it will spread over the whole of Asia. Should that occur another world war would be inevitable...
...battle of the courts was just another phase of New Dealer Chester Bowles's continuing war with the Republican-controlled House of Representatives. A fortnight ago Bowles adjourned the legislature by proclamation, under a 131-year-old law never used before, to get the House out of his way. Then he appointed 129 judges and deputies to replace Republicans whose two-year terms were about to expire...
...Rule or Reign. Leopold's biggest mistake was his conviction about the outcome of World War II. In March 1940 he told a visitor: "I am as anti-Hitler as you are. But keep in mind that Germany will win the war." The King seemed right when the German army engulfed Belgium after 18 hopeless days of resistance. He refused to follow his government to exile in England. He surrendered his army. In both these actions he showed his stubborn will to rule rather than reign...
Private Affair. The Germans interned Leopold in the royal chateau at Laeken. He regarded himself as a prisoner of war, refused to exercise royal functions. He visited Hitler at Berchtesgaden; his purpose, he later said, was to get better treatment for the Belgians. It was at Laeken, in September 1941, that he married Mary Liliane Baels...