Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commander, Vice Admiral Emile Henri Muselier, held a plebiscite. The 4,321 inhabitants voted 56-to-1 to stick with the Free French. The plebiscite suggested a way out to Cordell Hull. Last week the State Department sent General de Gaulle a formal note, asking him to withdraw his ships and men while the people of St. Pierre & Miquelon hold another plebiscite. Cordell Hull was confident that the vote would go the same way. But the ugly shadow of coercion would be lifted-and Vichy left with no grounds for accusing the U.S. of a breach of faith...
Special war certificates will be presented to undergraduates who withdraw from College before the completion of work for their degree in order to enter the armed forces, provided that they are in good standing and have completed at least a year of satisfactory work, the University announced last night...
Said the liberal, keen New-Statesman and Nation: "At this point we face something even more unpleasant than incompetence. No one will complain that Penang was deliberately evacuated while there was time to withdraw its white inhabitants. But reports insist that its docks and its electric power station were left intact for the enemy's use [see p. 21] and subsequent denials only cover half the charges...
...first shakedown stage of U.S. censorship brought up a few baffling cases of censorship in action. Most striking example: Columnists Pearson and Allen (Washington Merry-Go-Round) were called on the carpet by a White House spokesman, and told to withdraw an about-to-be-published column criticizing Navy's competence at Pearl Harbor. They were told that if they did not change their editorial attitude they would be barred from all official news sources-a penalty which would virtually put any Washington newspaperman out of business. On the surface the action looked like an attempt to suppress criticism...
...wait to defeat Japan? Japan is concentrating attack on territories in Asia and Malaysia. It will let Honolulu alone if we don't intervene. Why not, on the Committee's premises, let Japan run amok and simply withdraw to the eastern Pacific...