Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have said in substance that there is a basic argument now going on between communism and democracy . . . with such likelihood of disastrous outcome that the Muse of History must withdraw from the stage and leave the matter to the contemplation of Muse of Tragedy...
...London, Poland's ex-Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk indicated his terms for joining the new Government: the Russians must halt all deportations, withdraw their secret police (the NKVD, formerly the GPU), release all Poles from concentration camps, freely admit the foreign press to Poland, grant complete political freedom to all Poles (presumably including Russia's avowed enemies), guarantee Allied super vision of Polish elections. Addressing the House of Commons, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden bluntly warned Moscow that the British Government regarded the present Warsaw Poles with extreme distaste, expected something much more decent to emerge...
...National Youth Administration. After a three weeks' examination of his qualifications for the office of Rural Electrification Administrator, the Senate Agriculture Committee voted 12-to-8 last week to reject him. The Senate was in a mood to do the same. Urged to ask Franklin Roosevelt to withdraw his nomination before it came to a vote, Williams stuck out his chin and retorted, "Hell...
...first issue of Yank, June 17, 1942, the comic strip G.I. Joe made its debut. . . . If anyone can offer documentary evidence of publication of the term "G.I. Joe" before June 17, 1942 I will cheerfully withdraw my claim, and offer such person an inscribed original of G.I. Joe or Private Breger...
...over the coffins of the victims of Rundstedt's Christmas drive. Belgian political factions had scarcely interrupted (but never really stopped) their quarrel in face of the threat that the drive implied. Last week in Brussels crisis loomed again. The five Socialist members of his Cabinet threatened to withdraw their support from Premier Hubert Pierlot. His Government seemed to be tottering...