Word: wars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy has an interest also in the political beliefs of its officers and men. Why it has such an interest is obvious. If a man's loyalty belong wholly or in part to the government of another country, he will not be an effective fighter in a war against that country. The right the navy has to take this interest is the right to know the competence of each man employed in guarding the security of our country...
After the first World War, Seymour served on treaty and territory commissions dealing with Romania, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia and headed the Austro-Hungarian division...
Assuming the presidency of Yale in time for the end of the depression and the outbreak of the war, he saw the enrollment rise from a pre-war 5,300 to 9,000, and drop back to 8,400 this fall...
Danes's father died in a concentration camp in 1939, and he and his family went through six years of "hiding and waiting for the end." At the end of the war, Danes, thinking his troubles were over, entered the School of Business at Prague...
...captured and again sent to Germany to work in the ruins near Berlin. At the end of the war he returned to Poland but left almost immediately, because the Russians had taken over. He returned to Germany, finished high school, and in 1948 received an IRO scholarship to the University of Hanover...