Word: understood
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Hitler's terms were not disclosed, nor was there official confirmation of France's reported acceptance, but it was understood that the Fuehrer demanded that France divide control of her strategic African Possessions with Germany, Italy and Spain...
...oboe . . . makes the saying understood: "It's an ill wood wind no one blows good...
...furthermore that, if the President had elected to put an officer in charge, he would have had to make the difficult choice between Lieut. Colonel Hershey and Judge Advocate General Allen W. Gullion, who topped Lewis Hershey in rank if not in knowledge of the draft. Military men also understood that a civilian director was in keeping with U. S. tradition and with a basic conscription principle: to keep the Army as far as possible from civilian draftees until they are actually inducted into service...
...have not even begun a real defense effort as such things are understood in Europe...
Suddenly, for no reason that anyone in either London or Vichy understood, General de Gaulle withdrew...