Word: token
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Braden Way. In dictator-ridden Buenos Aires last May, Spruille Braden stated his policy in one explosive sentence: the United States is against dictators everywhere. By the same token he is for freedom everywhere - period...
...token French force accompanied the British, the Chinese had agreed to let 5,000 French soldiers enter with their occupation army, and 2,200 more French troops were on their way from Marseille. Whether they would be enough to cope with explosive Indo-China was doubtful, unless British and Chinese aid was substantial and prolonged. A Hanoi broadcast said that Indo-Chinese nationalists had proclaimed a republic...
Upon these forces (which would include token groups from other Allies) would fall the burden of implementing plans to secure the peace of the world, and of Asia in particular...
France Divided. In Paris debate raged. Screamed the Communist Humanite: Petain must die-"Pity would be a token of weakness." But others shook their heads over a trial for high treason which had become a trial of high politics. Said Author Georges Bernanos (Plea for Liberty) in Combat: "France is disgusted. . . ." Warned Lille's influential Voix du Nord: "The country remains divided, as it was after the Dreyfus case...
Three months after Vienna's capture by the Red Army, Russian officers for the first time permitted Allied correspondents into Austria's capital last week. A token force of U.S. and British troops arrived just before. Among the newsmen were TIME Correspondents Tom Durrance and William Walton, and LIFE Photographer John Phillips. Shortly after their arrival, Durrance and Phillips were arrested by the Russians.. They did not like Photographer Phillips snapping scenes that might show the Russians in a bad light. In a short time the two Americans were released...