Word: ago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Three years ago I made a speech at Fulton . . . Many people here and in my own country were startled and even shocked by what I said . . . Today there is a very different climate of opinion . . . We have the famous Marshall aid, the new unity in Western Europe, and now the Atlantic pact. . . No one could have brought about these immense changes . .. . but for the astounding policy of the Russian Soviet government. We may well ask, 'Why have they deliberately acted for three long years so as to unite the free world against them...
...position in Europe has so far successfully been maintained. [But] fear and its shadows [still] brood over Western Europe today . . . You have much responsibility there, where much faith is placed in you ... It is certain that Europe would have been communized like Czechoslovakia, and London under bombardment some time ago, but for the deterrent of the atomic bomb in the hands...
...Four or five hundred years ago, Europe seemed about to be conquered by the Mongols . . . The chivalry and armed power of Europe was completely destroyed by the Asiatic hordes' mounted archers. It seemed that nothing could avert the doom of the famous continent from which modern civilization and culture have spread throughout the world. But at the critical moment, something happened-the great Khan died . . . The Mongol armies and their leaders trooped back on their ponies across the 7,000 miles which separated them from their capital, in order to choose a successor. They never returned-till...
...joint plan of Western defense against Communist aggression. As Britain's Sir Stafford Cripps had said: "In one year EGA has done more for European unity than was accomplished in the preceding 500 years." The finest birthday testimonials came from the people EGA had succored. Eighteen months ago the 10,000 workers of Europe's biggest tire plant (Fort Dunlop) at Birmingham, England, faced what some of them called an economic Dunkirk...
...Bernard's own latest book, bits & pieces of autobiography called Sixteen Self Sketches. In Days With Bernard Shaw, Stephen Winsten, a writer and lecturer who lives next door to Shaw in Hertfordshire, gives an excellent record of their neighborly conversations over recent years. Fabian Essays, written 60 years ago by Shaw, Sidney Webb and others (and now re-issued with a new essay by Shaw himself) links up the years between. There is little of Shaw the playwright in these books, but much of Shaw the boy and Shaw...