Word: withdrawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week, as Ottawa waited for permission from Douglas MacArthur to ship the 10,000-plus to Japan, complications were coming fast. In the Tashme (B.C.) repatriation camp, 70% of the Japs had changed their minds; now they want to stay in Canada. In Montreal, other prospective repats asked to withdraw their requests to leave; Japan no longer seemed a good place to live...
Eichelberger (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), was jarred. Said a worried State Department official: the statement would probably create the impression abroad that the U.S. would soon withdraw completely and leave Japan to manage her own affairs...
...other Latin American capitals, officials talked of reopening the Argentine question at the Inter-American Conference in Rio de Janeiro next October. In Washington, it was rumored that Secretary of State James Francis Byrnes would withdraw Ambassador Braden from Buenos Aires as a slap at the Argentine militarists, make him Undersecretary of State. From Washington, too, came a report that the U.S. has already ordered its first economic sanction against Argentina: in the future, Argentine ships may not use the Panama Canal. Reason: their two vessels a month overtax the Canal...
...Canon C. E. M. Fry of Oxford, an official proponent of amendments at last May's convocation, is still not sure. On second thought, Canon Fry felt it "very wrong to withdraw the prohibition about a deceased wife's sister." Said he: "A great many of us know of cases where the wife grows old rather faster than her husband. She becomes rather faded. Her husband is not a bad sort of man, but he is amorous. His wife has a younger, attractive sister. He likes to go for long walks with her and his wife becomes uneasy...
Lean, dark Prince Menshikov watched the plump maiden withdraw, blushing. "And now who might that be?" he leered...