Word: conference
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many other foreigners are fighting America's battles in this war; some are technically Axis citizens and liable to be shot as traitors if captured. For their theoretical protection and reward the Army started last week to confer citizenship on men in the European Theater. Requirements: a soldier must i) be serving honorably in the armed forces; 2) have lawfully entered the U.S. beforehand; 3) produce two uniformed citizens, officers or noncoms, to vouch...
Home from China to confer with their Commander in Chief were Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell and Major General Claire L. Chennault. Straightway, the shrewdest Flying Tiger of them all got the General William L. Mitchell Air Trophy to show to his wife and eight kids (one serving on land, two at sea, three in the air). To "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell came a bid from his Peking-born daughter, Alison, 22, to her New York show of ink paintings in the Chinese style...
...being illegally detained by the Viceroy's Government. Reason: Rule No. 26, of the Defence of India Act, under which the Congress leaders were arrested and have been held without trial since last August, was invalid because "it went beyond the powers which the Legislature thought fit to confer on the Central Government...
...began in North Africa last week. In the preliminaries, the Fighting French were represented by able General Georges Catroux, commander in Syria and Lebanon. But De Gaulle, the Fighting French leader, announced in a broadcast to Occupied France that he himself would soon leave London to meet and confer with that "great soldier and noble figure," General Henri Honore Giraud. Together, said De Gaulle, "we will seek and find means of assuring that the French Empire shall be one Empire, that French strength shall be one strength, and the voice of all patriotic Frenchmen shall be one voice...
Life and Victory. "On this assumption [that Germany will be beaten first], it would be our hope that the United Nations, headed by three great victorious powers, the British Commonwealth of Nations, the United States and Soviet Russia, should [then] immediately begin to confer upon the future world organization, which is to be our safeguard against further wars...