Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...helped found the American Youth Congress. Last week it reconsidered. Despite a plea by A. Y. C.'s Executive Secretary Frances Williams, who admitted that A. Y. C. had made mistakes but nevertheless denied that its funds "come from Moscow," N. S. F. voted 87-to-24 to withdraw from A. Y. C. because of its "unsavory reputation" and because it was "not representative." N. S. F. also plumped for full economic aid to Britain...
...Dutch Reformed Church to begin all church services with a prayer for "Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina, other members of the Royal Family and The Netherlands Government." He lost all patience when the churchmen informed him that and-Jewish laws were contrary to Christian ideals and asked him to withdraw them. To show the Protestants what might be in store for them Dr. Seyss-Inquart began rounding up Catholics and putting them into concentration camps...
...plotters - but not Colonel Hashimoto. One month later Premier Yonai fell, Prince Konoye took over the Government, and Colonel Hashimoto was made director of the Imperial Rule Assistance Movement, central directing agency in the "new national structure." There was no reason for the fiery Colonel to withdraw his admonition: "Watch...
...huge press, plastic panels snap back into shape when the pressure is released. Continual assaults with heavy axes, hammers have no visible effect on the shiny, rustless panels. Their color is not paint but inbred in the plastic. Fenders of this Buck Rogers material, though not quite unbreakable, withdraw from minor collisions with lamp posts, etc., like unhurried rubber balls...
...that with China, Manchukuo and Korea. Even that could be harried by submarines. Weakened as she is by her three-year-old war in China, and dependent on supplies and markets overseas, her eventual defeat would be likely. At worst she might hold out until it became necessary to withdraw the U. S. Fleet to the Atlantic. If she then took the Indies, the U. S. would probably be no worse off than if Japan were allowed to seize the Indies...