Word: withdrawn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Expansion. Immediately north of Leyte, on the larger island of Samar (5,040 square miles to Leyte's 2,713), U.S. troops landed without opposition; the Japs had evidently-and fruitlessly-withdrawn their troops from Samar to Leyte. In tanks and trucks the Americans raced 45 miles up the west coast road of Samar, captured the capital, Catbalogan, kept going. Samar was soon "completely in American hands." President Osmeña said he expected to have its civilian government functioning in two weeks...
...State Department feared, if Washington rumor was right, that a Pan-American conference might take up the painful question of Argentina. This the Latin Americans denied vehemently. Most of them had withdrawn their ambassadors from Argentina. Beyond this action, they wanted no part in the U.S.-Argentine conflict, which they consider a U.S. worry...
...week's end, the churches in the diocese had withdrawn their ads from the News's Saturday church page...
Side by side with the German terror flourished a Greek terror. The British had expected to arrive as liberators. Instead, since the bulk of the German forces had been withdrawn, they found themselves playing the role of policeman to a country on the brink of civil war - and sometimes over the brink. The Greek resistance forces wore the insignia of E.A.M. (leftwing National Liberation Front) or E.L.A.S. (E.A.M.'s fighting...
...Yugoslavs, nearly dead from exhaustion. For days they had been hold ing a gorge in rain, mud, under enemy fire. But when they were ordered to retire for rest, one protested bitterly. That one was Josip Broz. Soon afterward, he was among a hand-picked group of Communists withdrawn by the Red Army's Military Intelligence to join some anti-Franco guerrilleros behind Franco's lines. He was next heard of in France, working in the section of the underground whose function was to dispatch men from all over Europe and the U.S. to fight in Spain...