Word: withholds
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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WASHINGTON--The Administration is considering proposals to send food and medical supplies into France and Spain but will withhold definite action until all aspects of the problem have been examined by William D. Leahy, new American Ambassador to Vichy, reliable quarters reported tonight...
...Langson, in violation of the agreement, Japanese forces crossed the Chinese frontier and attacked the garrison. Ordered to withhold fire, the 6,000 French Foreign Legionnaires and native troops had permitted themselves to be surrounded by the Japanese, who then attacked from all sides. One thousand were killed or wounded, 2,000, including a brigadier general, were taken prisoner and 3,000 escaped by fleeing unarmed into the jungle. Pro-Japanese guerrilla bands were reported to have recaptured 30 Frenchmen and killed them slowly. "The Japanese herded us together like cattle," reported an escaped Legionnaire. "Some had cover but most...
...very dirty weather, some pirates pushed us on the rocks and boarded us, disguised as 'national interest men.'" The need for state control of industry he could see, he said, but "It's going altogether too far when . . . this company has earned ?3,170,000, to withhold the whole of its earnings...
...Withhold Indian war funds...
...When an enemy submarine is sunk, the British Admiralty usually delays announcement of it, to withhold information and increase worry for the German High Command. Last week the Admiralty departed from this custom, announced the sinking in one day of two U-boats by one British destroyer. Emphasized-to encourage neutrals-was the fact that these U-boats had attacked a convoy off Ireland. Additional fact: they sank at least one of the convoyed ships (the Canadian Beaverburn). And another ship, the Chagres, was lost to a mine...