Word: withdrawnness
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...international mystery was still publicly unsolved: why had the Russians withdrawn from the International Civil Aviation Conference in Chicago at the last minute? Russia had announced that it was because Spain, Portugal and Switzerland had been invited (TIME, Nov. 6). The six Russian delegates, who had reached Winnipeg en route to Chicago last week climbed into their plane again, flew back to Russia without touching U.S. soil. From informed Washington sources close to the Russians, some light was shed by this frank explanation of the Russian position...
Expansion. Immediately north of Leyte, on the larger island of Samar (5,040 square miles to Leyte's 2,713), U.S. troops landed without opposition; the Japs had evidently-and fruitlessly-withdrawn their troops from Samar to Leyte. In tanks and trucks the Americans raced 45 miles up the west coast road of Samar, captured the capital, Catbalogan, kept going. Samar was soon "completely in American hands." President Osmeña said he expected to have its civilian government functioning in two weeks...
...State Department feared, if Washington rumor was right, that a Pan-American conference might take up the painful question of Argentina. This the Latin Americans denied vehemently. Most of them had withdrawn their ambassadors from Argentina. Beyond this action, they wanted no part in the U.S.-Argentine conflict, which they consider a U.S. worry...
...week's end, the churches in the diocese had withdrawn their ads from the News's Saturday church page...
Side by side with the German terror flourished a Greek terror. The British had expected to arrive as liberators. Instead, since the bulk of the German forces had been withdrawn, they found themselves playing the role of policeman to a country on the brink of civil war - and sometimes over the brink. The Greek resistance forces wore the insignia of E.A.M. (leftwing National Liberation Front) or E.L.A.S. (E.A.M.'s fighting...