Word: accountings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...located just a few miles from the Russians and my own observation concurs with that of your William Walton. They are our friends; we are their comrades. I'm glad Walton took pen in hand and I hope the home folks read his account and digest it well...
Yugoslav officials admit mistakes. But they argue that British and U.S. observers do not take sufficient account of the fact that, while Yugoslavia was occupied, there were those who fought the Germans and those who collaborated. Until the collaborators are dealt with, these officials say, it is impossible to institute a democracy as the West knows...
...whom the world did not tarnish, carried the classical spirit to the point of perfection-and, at moments, to the point of parody. The supreme detachment he imparted to his monumental Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire he imparted equally to his own life, and to his own account of it. In his Memoirs he reduced the ardent youthful romance that his father frowned upon to an immaculate antithesis: "I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son"-and thereafter lived without love till the day he died. But the plump, pompous little man with the snuffbox...
TIME Correspondent Craig Thompson, looking and listening throughout the trial, wrote this account: The prisoners' dock was a picket-fence pen knocked together out of boards salvaged from packing cases. It contained four rows of seats, four to a row. Around the dock there was a plethora of blue-and-red-capped, uniformed guards of the NKVD. Between the dock and the audience stood two guards, immobile with rifles grounded, leather cartridge cases on their belts, unbuttoned bayonets glinting like polished silver under the batteries of Klieg lights...
...issued a 14-line statement. A "majority" of the central banks of member nations had been represented at the meeting. No dividend had been declared (although the bank had made a handsome profit of 4,429,562 Swiss gold francs). All profits had been transferred to a "special suspense account...