Word: warne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leftists promptly blamed the rightist riot on De Gaulle's speech. In the Chamber of Deputies, Jacques Duclos shook his fist, cried: "Let me warn you. Where the rioters started . . . last night . . . Adolf Hitler started over twenty years ago!" Pravda's correspondent fished farther back in history, likened De Gaulle to President-Emperor Louis Napoleon. Leon éBlum, De Gaulle's most lenient critic, shook his head. "In France the step from presidential to personal power is all too short. . . ." Not a single responsible party leader defended Charles de Gaulle's gravest political mistake...
...gesture was meant to warn the British that, if it came to real war, the Jews had a well organized army. The extremist Irgun Zvai Leumi went further: they kidnaped six British officers, held them as hostages for two Irgun gunmen who had been sentenced to death. Gangs raided central railway shops in Haifa; nine Jews were killed. The Haviva Reik, carrying 450 illegal immigrants (see cut), was nabbed by British patrol ships and brought into Haifa. She flew a banner proclaiming: "Keep the gate open; we are not the last...
...knew the words Lichfield and Kilian as well as he knew the location of the nearest pub. Through the far-reaching military grapevine came unbelievable tales about the guardhouse at the Tenth Depot and of the colonel in command. Former pass from the Lichfield base would continually warn their buddies: "Keep your nose clean when you get there." They beat prisoners there, they told you, and some guys died from the beatings. To those who wondered why nothing had been done about it, the answer was as GI as Willie and Joe: "This is the Army, Jack...
Spain. Next day mild, dapper José Giral, Premier of the Spanish Republican Government in exile, appeared before the Council's subcommittee on Spain to warn that Franco had 1,590,000 soldiers. Earlier in the week the U.S. had reported that Spain's "armed forces have continued their overall trend of gradual reduction in size...
...confidential elbow-push in the stomach, he convinced many a jittery second-rater that he was really a wildcat. His persuasiveness worked the other way, too. Johnston once whispered to mighty Jess Willard: "Jess, you killed a man in your last fight. . . . I just thought I'd warn you, my boy has a bad heart...