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...punish and to bribe. In many places food supplies have been withdrawn or restricted in reprisal for minor infractions of Nazi edicts. When students plastered a French town with De Gaullist placards, meat ration cards were canceled for 40 days. In certain areas marked for German colonization, the Nazis withhold vitamins from the population to foster a slave mentality...
Still the War and Navy Departments insisted that it is necessary to withhold news of casualties, to conceal movements of troops and warships. They reminded the press that all warring governments now suppress casualty lists...
Finland had made a hard choice. It was not unprecedented in a war in which nations choose sides out of national interest rather than because of old friendships. The U.S. would probably continue to urge Britain to withhold a declaration of war, not so much because of friendship as because there is still a chance that Finland may quit the war when she has achieved her objectives: a boundary (TIME, Nov. 10) that will provide a good defense line in case of future Russian attack. If Finland does not quit and Germany loses the war, Finland must settle with Russia...
...ought not to withhold cotton surpluses, or any stir pluses at times like these. The housewife ought not to be made to pay a tribute . . . when she buys a cotton sheet for her home or a shirt for her husband. . . . This has been historically a land of milk and honey, but too much of it is in the warehouses. Let's make it flow...
...strike was called, Squire Young announced that he would withhold his milk from the market, churn it to butter. Then he issued a statement explaining the issues behind the strike. Said...