Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, 26 years ahead of time, Moscow abruptly forced Tokyo to abandon its Sakhalin concessions. The enemy of Germany was still at peace and still bargaining with the enemy of the U.S., Britain and China. But what Russia gave Japan was nebulous or nominal: 5,000,000 rubles ($950,000), plus a promise to sell Japan 50,000 tons of oil annually for five years-after the war. Japan has vast stocks of oil on hand, can get all she wants in the Dutch East Indies. But the road south is long, watched closely by U.S. subs. Short...
...attacking in considerable strength. Same day Admiral Mountbatten said the attackers were only "raiding parties." Pundits everywhere were stumped. Said one U.S. radio commentator: "This looks serious." A columnist: "Professional military men . . . are not fretting over some gains in those border mountains." Republican Congresswoman Jessie Sumner (who wants to abandon the war in Europe, make MacArthur supreme anti-Japanese commander) said "military authorities" had told her that many U.S. troops had no guns to fight the Japs at Imphal (where there are no U.S. troops...
...result of this turnaround, Canadian troops now fight in dispersed corps rather than as a single all-Canadian army, as McNaughton planned it. To this charge, Toronto's bitterly anti-King Globe & Mail added another: The Government, having committed itself to the McNaugh ton policy, had to abandon it because of failure to procure the manpower to main tain and reinforce a full Canadian army...
Knowing himself beyond medical aid, Captain Folster called for a slug of brandy, then ordered his men to abandon ship. As the boats pulled away and the ship settled in the water, ablaze from end to end, the survivors heard a weird sound. The skipper had propped himself up, got hold of the whistle lanyard with his good arm and sent his last salute−dot-dot-dot-dash−the Morse code V for Victory...
Hollywood, in its treatment of "our gallant Russian ally" as usual, comes with too little, too late. Evidently still punchy from the conviction that they are flying in the face of all convention by writing about Russia at all, they are content to abandon as irrelevant all considerations of artistic merit. They are introducing Russia to the American people; that's enough to justify "Mission to Moscow" and "The North Star." That Russia is no longer taboo in the drawing rooms, and that the more conservative journals discuss thte Red Army quite freely, seems to have escaped them...