Word: exception
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Germany will occupy roughly all territory north and west of Tours in west-central France, will thus control Paris as well as all western seaports. All rights of occupation except local administration are to be maintained by the troops stationed there, with France to pay the costs of occupation...
...Naval, military and air forces must be completely demobilized and disarmed, with the exception of troops needed to preserve order. Except for such portions as are needed to safeguard French colonial possessions, the Fleet is to be collected in specified ports-under the assurance that Germany will not employ it for its own purposes, except for coastal surveillance and minesweeping. No Frenchman may serve against Germany in the service of other powers...
Congress of Berlin? From Bucharest, Correspondent Walter Duranty cabled a story that Germany would soon summon all Europe except Russia and Turkey to a congress at Berlin which would revise national boundaries and set up Hitler's plan for a five-zone Europe guided by the Third Reich. Wrote...
...Savitsch went from Antwerp to the Belgian Congo to collect data on sleeping sickness. Except for their strong smell, said he, Congo natives made ideal patients. They endured pain "without a murmur," were "obedient," had "a strange resistance to post-operative infection even in the absence of ... ordinary sanitary precautions," were delighted with any operative results, no matter how gruesome. A man with a balloon-like tumor of the upper jaw had a large wedge of bone cut out. He called for a mirror and "spent most of the day admiring himself...
...like this to Chicago housewives, redhaired, babyfaced, 26-year-old Tommie Bartlett has become the guiding star of two of the cutest, corniest radio programs in the U. S. Known as Meet the Missus and The Missus Goes to Market, the Bartlett shows are broadcast from recordings each morning except Sunday over station WBBM, potently plug the virtues of Kitchen Klenzer, Big Jack Soap, Automatic Soap Flakes. Last week, in a lather of success, Tommie Bartlett was airing his performances under a new contract, which binds him to Fitzpatrick Bros., his sponsors, for the fifth consecutive year...