Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Party had ganged up on the Book-of-the-Month Club's choice for May, Mark Aldanov's novel The Fifth Seal (Scribner's; $3). The Daily Worker opened the attack with a letter demanding that the club withdraw the novel as "subtly and viciously anti-Soviet." Then the machinery started turning whereby the Party gets a wide assortment of innocent bystanders and fellow travelers to forward the assassination. Labor unions, civic groups and authors received unsigned memorandums, urging protests; many obliged. Protests were made by Sculptor Jo Davidson, Artist Rockwell Kent, Poet Alfred Kreymborg, Poetess Genevieve...
British and Indian troops were in slow, steady retreat last week before the jujitsu jabs of the Japs, who infiltrated their positions and threatened to cut their thin communication line. The British would probably be lucky if they could withdraw intact to India before the imminent season of monsoon, malaria...
...world, Tojo was signaling the fact that island Japan had become a continental power. The Japanese had begun to withdraw some of their own troops from China, replace them with thousands of Chinese, sometimes under Japanese officers, often under Chinese officers from Manchukuo. The Nanking government is now allowed to handle economic exploitation of Occupied China and the squeeze is as merciless as when it was applied by Japan. Nanking, pleased, declared war on Britain and the U.S. (TIME, Jan. 18). Last week Tokyo relinquished some of its extraterritorial concessions, nominally placed them in Chinese hands...
...addition to the list of 30 names submitted for the election slate last Friday by the '46 Class Committee, three others were added by petition. This raises the number of candidates to a total of 32, since one man, John Kolbjornsen, was forced to withdraw from the running...