Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...First Zone. "The First Zone of Safety shall be to set up a trusteeship when this war shall have been prosecuted to the day of unconditional surrender. I propose that the trustees shall be Russia, Great Britain, the United States, the producing and effective nations, with China a full and equal member. . . . These trustees . . . shall administer the territories and people and economy of our enemies. . . . This trusteeship shall be indefinite in point of time. ... It will set up local governmental machinery. ... It will police the territories. . . . One of its first objectives will be to restore France to its rightful place...
Lieut. John Roosevelt, 27, youngest of the President's sons and the only one who has not yet seen action, was assigned to "sea duty in a war zone...
Army Orders. As the first note went into circulation the question popped up: Under what authority did the U.S. Treasury print a new type of currency? Coinage is the jealous right of Congress alone. The answer is in international law. A military commander in an occupied zone is the de facto government of the area. He can levy and collect taxes, issue money. The money was printed, not on orders of the U.S. Treasury, but on orders of the U.S. Army, which footed the printing bill...
...island. If so, Fascismo in Italy was certainly worried. Fascist Editor Roberto Farinacci cried out against nincompoop generals and flabby dignitaries in the Mussolini hierarchy. The people were told that Germany could not spare planes or men for Italy from the Russian front. Mussolini extended the zone of military rule to the two southern provinces opposite Sicily...
...fighters flying had to be brought in by air. One of the most dangerous, most important and least noticed phases of combined warfare was this job of air supply. Said one of the younger pilots who did the job: "Here we go again. We move into the combat zone so damn fast that we feel like fighter pilots. The Jerries take off, then we land, then our fighters land and we gas them up. Why, sometimes we damn near gas the Jerries...