Word: ago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks ago, it was finally and formally agreed that China's struggle was indeed part of the world struggle against Communism. The agreement came after repeated pleas from men like Defense Secretary James Forrestal, Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, the State Department's Policy Planner George F. Kennan. The only value of this belated acknowledgment would be in its public proclamation-to tell the world that Washington had at last waked up to the fact that "coalition" with the Communists always led to Communist control...
...reasonably well pleased with the results. Despite mistakes and the awkwardness to be expected in getting any such vast plan started, ECA was generally doing what it was supposed to do. Without ECA, Hoffman declared, France and Italy "would have been in the hands of the Communists six months ago...
...month ago, his grateful Finns made up a pool, paid for his air passage for a visit. Armed with hundreds of lollipops for the children, McAllister went. He saw nearly all his families. The children had been taught to say: "How do you do, Uncle Bob. Welcome to Finland." Last week McAllister returned happily to the U.S. and to his lonely one-room apartment in The Bronx. He hoped to save enough in two years to visit Finland again...
...Room 723, Hummon and his handsome second wife, Betty, listened to the returns. As the results from the back counties came in, they told the story. By midnight Hummon had an unbeatable lead over Acting Governor Melvin Thompson (who had prevented Hummon from taking over by force 19 months ago...
...German capital and its people last week came the most violent and perhaps the most fateful days since Red armies three years ago blasted their way across the Tiergarten, littered with uniformed corpses. After watching the Berlin scene last week, TIME'S Bureau Chief Emmet Hughes cabled...