Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Cabinet partly because his job was done, partly because his whole constituency was ceded to Russia and all his constituents were among these weary évacués. For these last exiles and 370,000 who had been evacuated before them, new homes had to be found in central and western Finland...
Lesson No. 2 from Finland was the cumbersomeness in rough country of divisions which are over-mechanized and equipped as occupying troops instead of for sheer attack and holding. The elaborate Russian caravans which sought to penetrate Finland's forested southeast corner and central "waist" bogged down of their own weight and complexity on narrow roads. Under the circumstances, the superior mobility of the ten-man Finnish ski patrols actually gave them superiority in effective numbers over the hordes of stalled Russians, a superiority not unlike that of a small wolf pack over a herd of caribou...
Last week, 21 years less one month after the massacre of Amritsar, an elderly audience of 200 men and women, mostly retired Indian civil servants and their wives, attended at London's Caxton Hall a staid lecture by Sir Percy Sykes of the Royal Central Asian Society. Subject: Afghanistan: The Present Situation...
Meanwhile Japanese Premier Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai warned the Great Powers indirectly that their diplomatic and consular representatives may soon have to do business with "The Nanking Government" or find it impossible to look after their interests in central China. The fighting Chungking Government of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek observed the arrival of Wang in Nanking by issuing an order to burn every book written by either Wang Ching-wei or his disciple Chou...
...years H. R. Knickerbocker covered Central Europe. For a series of 24 articles on The Red Trade Menace, in the Philadelphia Public Ledger, he won a Pulitzer Prize. Edged out of Germany after Hitler came to power, Knickerbocker colorfully reported wars in Ethiopia, Spain and China for Hearst's International News Service, saw German troops march into Austria, then into Czecho-Slovakia...