Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roared angry Sir Arthur, the strategy required to defeat the Germans was minuscule compared to the strategy required at home to allow him to beat the Germans. With few kindly words for anyone (exceptions: Churchill, Eisenhower, Marshal of the R.A.F. Lord Portal), he rates the enemies of Bomber Command as: 1) the Royal Navy; 2) the British Army; 3) the German air force; 4) British civil service; 5) the politicians. After the Air Ministry under Sir Archibald Sinclair, "who went cap in hand to the other services," came the German Army and Sweden...
...Techniques. A settlement of the communal issue, even if it was temporary, would allow Patel to turn his attention to the growing labor strife. Late last summer, when a famine impended, a Communist-led strike had tied up south India railroads; a nationwide 25-day postal strike in July was also Communist-inspired. Two weeks ago Karachi dock workers walked off ten grain ships for ten days to get a wage of 94? daily. As a result of the stoppage, the rice ration in New Delhi was cut from twelve to eight ounces. In New Delhi 100,000 children were...
...statement to the CRIMSON Saturday, Karpovich called for legal action by the victor nations which will allow Russian emigres who have not been found guilty of crimes against their own government to remain safely in the country to which they have fled. This action would probably have to be made by international agreement, he said, and might be a job for the United Nations...
Opera's Melchior said he would probably never sing opera in Boston again, "because . . . Boston would not allow German opera to be given here during the war." He said it was "nothing personal . . . simply a principle ... I believe that art has nothing to do with politics." Three nights later Tenor Melchior sang in concert in Boston, where the Met had given three Wagnerian operas in 1945 and Melchior had sung...
...Chicago Student Conference and the International Union of Students. If you dare to disagree, it makes you either a "Red" or worse yet "naive." But too much honest work and thought and hope have gone into the Chicago and the Prague Conferences, a little of it mine, to allow Elliott to get away with an attack that is ignorant, prejudiced, and untrue...