Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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This added another 902,082 square miles to the broad belt of Central Africa which has cast its lot with Britain. The Belgian Congo lies squarely between De Gaullist French Equatorial Africa and the British colonies of Kenya and Tanganyika, but is too wild a region to become a corridor for operations between the two. The Belgian Government in London prepared to mobilize all Belgians abroad, between the ages of 18 and 35, to strengthen the Congo's defenses...
...major Greek objective was the Italians' southwestern base, Argirocastro, defended by an Italian "battalion of death" fresh from Modena. The Greeks, attacking before dawn after nocturnal artillery barrages, smashed their way by grenade and bayonet up the eastern wall of Argirocastro's valley. This week, on the central front, the Greeks claimed the capture of 5,000 prisoners in a major rout...
...South) addressed a stern warning to Bulgaria, whose Parliament began talking of revisionist claims against Yugoslavia. ''The question of Macedonia was settled on the battlefields. Nevermore will the Valley of Vardar be detached from Yugoslavia." That strategic valley is a link in the most convenient route from central Europe to strategic Salonika...
Japanese police arrested 38 of the plotters - but not Colonel Hashimoto. One month later Premier Yonai fell, Prince Konoye took over the Government, and Colonel Hashimoto was made director of the Imperial Rule Assistance Movement, central directing agency in the "new national structure." There was no reason for the fiery Colonel to withdraw his admonition: "Watch...
...could be, as such things always have been, as dull as dipsomania. But In the Money is as fully fleshed, as complex, and as curiously beautiful as daily life. So Williams lifts his material clear of the stodgy fog banks of Naturalism. To this central ability he brings an impressive set of spare tools. Joyce himself has scarcely greater precision with dialogue, and only Richard Hughes has written so well of the behavior of children. Without one line of comment, Williams makes clear "social significances" which the authors of Middletown can only bumble over. With scarcely a skid into deliberate...