Word: cleared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must clear ourselves of the charge of Communistic-" "You're out of order!" shouted Chairman Ennes...
...technicians employed there outfitting two new Turkish submarines, together with 60 other Germans working at the Gremlik naval base, in an explosives factory at Kirikkale, and in the Zonguldak coal field. Other Germans made haste to pull up stakes, for now the handwriting on Turkey's wall was clear. Authoritative sources explained that the technicians' dismissal was necessitated by discovery of a sabotage plot. But one Turkish spokesman ominously said: "Spring is coming...
...about 250 had been allotted by the Allies up to last week-although not all of these had been delivered. Whether the rest of the quota had been promised by other countries, or whether the Allies had upped their allotment, Sir Walter did not make clear...
...that aid to Finland was gathering momentum was clear. Following a meeting of the Allied War Council (see p. 22), the Manchester Guardian's diplomatic correspondent came out flatly with the statement that "the Allies are moving toward intervention in the Finnish war." At Whitehall, a Government spokesman blandly ignored correspondents' questions as to whether the Guardian's statement represented the official British view, but in the House of Commons Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain went out of his way to damn Russian air attacks on Finnish towns and to announce that further Allied...
With the spies came the bombs, sprayed by wave after wave of Soviet planes. In the clear cold air they flew high, trailing a thin line of vapor from their exhausts, dropping clusters of small bombs that burst into flames when they hit. Systematically the Russians went after every centre of communications: railways, telegraph and telephone centres, roadheads, bridges, factories. (They got a ski factory and the Finns were short of skis.) This meant that civilians had to bear the brunt of the bombings. Typical of the destruction wrought was the case of Sortavala, vital railway junction on the north...