Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West's answer to Vishinsky. It was a sweeping Anglo-American resolution on "Essentials of Peace." Among other things, its twelve points would pledge all U.N. members not to use force or the threat of force in ways contrary to the U.N. charter; to refrain from fomenting civil strife in other countries; to carry out international agreements in good faith; to promote human rights; to grant free access to U.N. agencies; to exercise restraint in the use of the U.N. veto; to drop barriers which prevent a free exchange of information; to give up a measure of national sovereignty...
Last week, Interior Minister Vaclav Nosek flatly declared that the reservation in the loyalty oath was unacceptable. He announced furthermore that, beginning next year, church marriages will have no legal standing in Czechoslovakia; only civil marriage will be officially recognized. The new marriage decree also abolishes the posting of marriage banns. Nosek justified the decree by citing the case of a priest who had refused to marry a couple because they were Communists. Said Nosek: "Of course, he was arrested...
...Civil marriage is required in many other countries on either side of the Iron Curtain, e.g., France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Poland, Yugoslavia...
...years, China's commercial airlines - built and operated with the help of American personnel- had flown passengers and cargo through every kind of weather, across a land whose ground communications, always bad, were increasingly disrupted by civil war. Recently, the airlines' main job has been retreat: month after month, they flew harried Nationalist ministers from city to city in flight from advancing Reds. Last week, in one of the slickest coups of the civil war, the Communists grabbed the better part of the Nationalist-owned airlines...
...almost all of CATC's American personnel stood by the Nationalists. Major General Claire Chennault, who runs Civil Air Transport, third civilian airline in Nationalist China, put his planes on 24-hour service, offered jobs to CNAC and CATC men of "proven loyalty." "I don't want anything to do with that [Communist] outfit," said one flyer. Another showed U.S. newsmen a cable signed "Mother" and begging: "Don't fly for other party. Please come home...