Word: withdrawn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ninety percent of the personnel handling, repairing, conserving and hauling the hundreds of million dollars' worth of U.S. surplus material are now German P.W.s. Through error, the names of P.W.s even sneaked into the recent telephone directory of Western Base Section Headquarters in Paris. The directory was quickly withdrawn and purged...
...better. If accepting Chinese ways and customs would help win China to Rome, then those ways and customs would be accepted. It was not a new idea. In the 17th Century, Pope Paul V gave Jesuit missionaries permission to say Mass in Chinese.* But the permission was soon withdrawn, and Pope Clement XI later forbade some of the native customs which the Jesuits had allowed converts to retain...
...disloyalty but because, in a way he never makes clear, he thought he might thus "solidify the opposition of the Filipinos" against the invading Japanese. Finally, to halt the "possibly useless sacrifice" of Filipino life and property, he proposed in February 1942, that both U.S. and Jap forces be withdrawn and the Philippines "neutralized" and declared wholly independent...
Iran. Last week the Council received a report from Teheran that the Red Army had withdrawn from Azerbaijan. Iran's Ambassador Hussein Ala wondered how thorough were the findings of his Government's investigating commission to Azerbaijan. Poland's Oscar Lange asked Ala: "Did the commission make its investigation from an airplane by telescope...
...continued to promote its enthusiastic plans for color. Result: at least one manufacturer (Zenith) stopped plans for black-&-white receivers; at least a score of television-station applications were withdrawn from...