Word: exception
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Thus did the Vatican, which has sought & found a modus vivendi with every victorious power except atheistic Soviet Russia, move to align itself with the new order in Europe. In an equally significant gesture to the southern Axis partner it announced that the semi-official Vatican newsorgan Osservatore Romano would cease publication. Banned outside Vatican City by the Italian Government because it printed British war communiques, it has lost circulation as rapidly as it gained it last autumn, when Romans discovered its unique (in Italy) impartiality (TIME, May 27). Osservatore Romano will be replaced by a Jesuit-owned paper, Corriere...
could not hope to paralyze German transport except at the Ruhr bottleneck, but the broad new Autobahnen (speed highways) helped guide night pilots to Augsburg (northwest of Munich), which in the 15th and 16th Centuries was one of Europe's great trade centres and now has, besides the ancient palaces of its merchant princes, the Messerschmitt aircraft plant...
...boldly against British convoys. Refugees arriving in Canada last week told of four ships in their group being sunk far out in the Atlantic the day after their armed escorts left them. A ship carrying 320 British poor children to Canada was sunk off Ireland, all hands being saved except the purser. Italy last week declared that some of her submarines had run the gantlet past Gibraltar to join in raiding Atlantic sea lanes. Thus, by sea as by air, Britain's position grew tougher & tougher...
...shot. ... I should ask you to declare your views against Japan and in so doing make Japan live through your death. But, for this, inner conviction is necessary." Said Kagawa: "The conviction is there. But friends have been asking me to desist." Said Gandhi, knowing nothing of doing nothing except on the advice of friends: "Don't listen to friends when the friend inside you says 'Do this.' " Purge. First victim of the new nation alist purge in Japan last week was the Salvation Army. After dismissing its for eign officers, cutting off relations with British headquarters...
That a strong sentiment for non-intervention existed among the undergraduates last fall was established by the fact that the American Independence League, an organization dedicated to peace but having no specific aims except "keeping out of war" signed up 600 members in three or four days. Except for one brief outburst six months later, the A. I. L. disappeared as quickly as it came...