Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through the U.S. lines with military information for the retreating Wehrmacht before he was caught. A U.S. Army court sentenced him to death; on review, the sentence was reduced to life imprison ment. When a U.S. correspondent saw Karl Fuzeler in his cell, he was quite will ing to admit that Germany had been beaten. But he had lost none of his belief in Hitler and Naziism, none of his conviction that Germans are superior to Americans, Britons, or Russians. The Allied armies happened to have more materiel-that...
...instrument, the National Democratic Front, had undoubtedly been raised to power by Moscow for Moscow's purposes. The ousted premier, General Nicolai Radescu, undoubtedly had good reason to seek haven in the British Legation, where he prudently remained last week. But critical British and U.S. diplomats had to admit that General Radescu was at best an honest weakling. They similarly had to face the fact that the Groza program, fashioned by a makeshift minority, nevertheless fitted the majority's desire for land and other reforms. In Rumania, as in Finland, conspiracy would not be enough to fulfill Russian...
...many people who are more like the Pharisee than the Publican-members of the Episcopal Church who look around and say, 'Thank God I am not as other men are.' It has all contributed to the smug complacency that makes so many Episcopalians readily and proudly admit that they are Churchmen, but makes them as readily admit that they 'don't go to church much...
Whatever U.S. civil airmen thought of Britain's method, they had to admit that at least the British had a plan. The U.S. did not know what...
...London, Poland's ex-Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk indicated his terms for joining the new Government: the Russians must halt all deportations, withdraw their secret police (the NKVD, formerly the GPU), release all Poles from concentration camps, freely admit the foreign press to Poland, grant complete political freedom to all Poles (presumably including Russia's avowed enemies), guarantee Allied super vision of Polish elections. Addressing the House of Commons, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden bluntly warned Moscow that the British Government regarded the present Warsaw Poles with extreme distaste, expected something much more decent to emerge...