Word: control
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...agreement signed March 8, 1949 with Bao Dai, they promised limited freedom for Viet Nam within the French Union. Under its terms, a Viet Nam cabinet has charge of internal affairs, the right to a national army. Paris keeps direct control of foreign policy, maintains military bases and special courts for Frenchmen, retains a special place for French advisers and the French language...
...hunting tigers near his summer villa at Dalat when the Japanese, early in 1945, made their 1940 control of the colony official and complete. They surprised his party, took him prisoner, installed him as a puppet emperor-until their own capitulation to the Allies a few months later...
...rugged hit & run fighting in forest and swamp terrain well suited for guerrilla tactics. By day the French control about half the countryside; and if they want to, they can penetrate where they will, though ambush takes its toll. At night, however, the French draw into their forts and garrisoned centers. Then Ho Chi Minh's men steal forth, terrorize peasants, collect taxes (two-fifths of a farmer's rice harvest), and run the countryside almost everywhere...
...university scholarships. Again & again, Communist oldtimers din into young ears: "You are the future of the German people." In response to such accolades, one FDJ member recently told an American: "I'm not much now, but when Germany is all Communist, I might be a mayor. When we control all Europe, I might be a state governor...
Last week it became apparent that behind Msgr. Jachym's decision lay a serious disagreement with his superior, Vienna's Theodore Cardinal Innitzer. Aging (74) Cardinal Innitzer believes that the church should live in peace with whatever temporal power happens to be in control. When the Nazis took Austria in 1938, Innitzer publicly urged Catholics to vote for them (an act for which he was sternly reprimanded by Pope Pius XI), and later Innitzer made it clear that he thought he and his church could get along with the Communists through conciliation and diplomacy. Young (40), vigorous Franz...