Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...terms of a 'part one,' to be followed by a quite different 'part two.' . . . The British expect a considerable change of pace after Germany is defeated. . . . England, which is now the advance base in the fight against Germany, sees herself dropping out of the combat zone and fighting a war remote from her home shores, as we are doing now. . . . For instance, the huge air-raid precaution services, the Home Guard, the anti-aircraft defenses and all other activities connected with the bombing of England and the danger of invasion would have no further purpose...
Since Chaplain Cleary has been serving with the Army on numerous stations since 1918, the award of this office, which carries the title of Right Reverend Monsignor, was made for outstanding and conspicuous service to the country as well as to the Church. Upon his return from the war zone, Archbishop Francis Spellman, head Catholic Chaplain of the U. S., will invest the Colonel with his new robes of office...
...cosmopolitan Tangier-an international zone until Franco grabbed it in 1940-pro-Ally Arabs and Jews have been flogged and imprisoned; Franco's police picketed the British Tangier Gazette and halted its publication. After British Consul General A. D. F. Gascoigne called on General Uriarte, Spanish Governor General of the zone, the Gazette reappeared, and General Uriarte announced that "the German-inspired" anti-Jewish campaign would stop, all arrested Jews would be freed...
...facing cocky, fighting little Lieut. General Kenney. His targets stretch over a curve reaching from Jap-held Timor in The Netherlands Indies to the Solomon Islands. Within this 4,000-mi. arc the Japanese have concentrated more air power and troops than anywhere else in the Far Eastern war zone except in China. They may have an offensive thrust in mind: to clean the Allies out of Australia's outlying islands and launch an invasion of Australia itself. Or they may be building up a defense against Allied designs on the ladder of islands which marks the road...
...premier as "the prisoner of Nanking." Now the Jap has turned to a policy of blandishment. On paper he has granted Nanking breathtaking political and economic concessions, such as the nominal surrender of foreign extraterritorial rights, including Japan's. He has tried to curb inflation in the occupied zone. He has altered his propaganda against Chiang Kaishek: no longer is the Generalissimo painted as a fiend destroying China, but as the tool of Anglo-American plotters. Most alarming, he has pushed the organization of Wang's puppet army, now several hundred thousand strong...