Word: stops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allies, and therefore displeasing to the Nazis and Russians. Italian public and official opinion follows the Church in its fear lest either Naziism or Communism or both be carried violently into the Balkans or Near East in the next few months. This the Allies must try to stop, and II Duce is resolved to trade on the "nuisance value" of the Italian Navy and Air Force...
...Newsmen Walter Duranty, Eugene Lyons, Roy Wilson Howard. Author Emil Ludwig and Professor Jerome Davis each once had long, serious sessions with him. Playwright George Bernard Shaw and his friend, Lady Astor, went on a lark to Moscow and saw him, too. "When are you going to stop killing people?" asked the impertinent Lady Astor. "When it is no longer necessary," answered Comrade Stalin...
...fast trains ran close together on the line from Berlin to Cologne and Neunkirchen. Ahead was a Berlin-Cologne Christmas special, jampacked with third-class passengers. Behind was the regular Berlin-Neunkirchen express. As the Christmas special slowed down for Genthin station, near Magdeburg, the express passed a stop signal. Either the engineer did not see the signal, or its mechanism was faulty. Without slowing down, the express ploughed into the rear of the special, telescoping three flimsy third-class coaches. When rescuers had counted up the dead and injured there were 132 killed, including the engineer of the express...