Word: falling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...French Republic, linked together in their cause and their need, will defend to the death their native soils, aiding each other like good comrades to the utmost of their strength, even though a large tract of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule...
Reynaud's Hands. The communique announcing the fall of Daladier said: "The Premier becomes Minister of Foreign Affairs at the same time as Minister of National Defense, these two Ministries assuring the conduct of the war." Thus Paul Reynaud gave himself the authority of virtual dictator on the conduct of the war. But far more important was the strength and nimbleness of the helping hands he gathered around him. Four appointments in particular were striking: >As his Chief Assistant...
From Paris via Switzerland, whither he fled from his onetime friends, the Nazis, German Steel Tycoon Fritz Thyssen prophesied the fall of Hitler "once the German people understand how they have been betrayed." Said he: "Never was a war so recklessly started and with less industrial preparation...
Last week President Roosevelt wrote a letter regretting that Dr. Hart had accepted an offer. This one was from Boston's big, swank Trinity Church (salary: $15,000; communicants: 2,400), to be vacated this fall by another Southern aristocrat, Rev. Arthur Lee ("Little Tui") Kinsolving, who leaves for modest little Trinity Church at Princeton, N. J. Boston should give Rector Hart another chance to refuse a bishopric, if he wishes to. Before "Tui" Kinsolving (who did not stay long enough), Trinity's three rectors each became a bishop...
...months after Canada declared war on Germany last fall, one of the world's most rigorous censorships closed down over the Dominion (TIME, Nov. 20). Last week it was still in force. Of their own war efforts, Canadians learned only what the Dominion Government thought they ought to know. Allied defeats in Europe were honeycoated (partly by censorship, partly by editorial optimism) for the Dominion press...