Word: succor
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Rousing false hopes. After taking Polish radio stations last September, the Germans proceeded to broadcast, in Polish, such "news" as that hundreds of British bombers had arrived to succor Poland. (Three weeks ago, during the retreat from Paris, U. S. correspondents reported from Tours that on the road at night men would step up to refugees and say: "Vive la France! Russia has declared war on Germany...
...their farms. She had taken over her husband's work of running the Paris Information Centre. Young Count René de Chambrun is a lieutenant on the Maginot Line. Like most wealthy Parisiennes. the Comtesse has also enrolled to drive her own sleek Hispano in emergency evacuation, succor wounded in case Paris is bombed...
...Neighbor policy and the War. "The State Department . . . took its partial defeat at Lima with a minimum of moral pout and snobbery, and at Panama, in September 1939, it had its partial reward. . . . [But] the U. S. . . . came to Panama with the fiscal and economic power to ruin or succor a dozen or more republics whose trade ties and money links with Germany . . . had been completely disrupted by the War . . . Uncle Sam had suddenly become the only banker and grocer on his street." Unchanged remain the bottom facts that: 1) South Americans are culturally attached to Europe...