Word: war-torn
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Accompanying Trotsky in his weary Odyssey from Russia through Turkey, Scandinavia, and ultimately to Mexico, the boxes and dossiers of documents had an interesting history. Apparently certain items are still in war-torn Europe, and while it is hoped that they may eventually wend their way to the Treasure Room, copies of the originals are believed to be included among the new Harvard acquisitions...
...international relations in a war-torn world were not only bewildering but disillusioning. Young Philip Stegerer of Washington, D. C., who enlisted last February in the Canadian Active Service Force, was honorably discharged because of old injuries and was preparing to return home. But a U. S. board of inquiry decided that, since he had pledged allegiance to George VI, he was no longer a U. S. citizen. He could not re-enter his country...
...Jack Franklin decided last week that his new transatlantic liner would go into the West Indies cruise business (early this week ports of call had not been chosen). At the same time he announced that his twin smaller liners Washington and Manhattan, now busy evacuating U. S. refugees from war-torn Europe, would begin next month a regular passenger service between the Port of New York and the Pacific Coast by way of the Panama Canal...
ROME, Wednesday--Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, on an observation tour of war-torn Europe for President Roosevelt, departed for Berlin at 12.10 A.M. today for conversations with German Foreign Minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop and Chancellor Adolf Hitler which the Italian press believed may have a strong hearing on the future course of the Russo-Finnish conflict and the war between the Allies and Germany...
...richest part of Western Poland is being unceremoniously stolen from the Poles and deeded over to the Germans as the real proprietors are packed off in foul-smelling trains to the war-torn region of Warsaw...