Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Proud Loss. The self-destruction of the French Fleet on that Friday morning was surpassed only by the German scuttling of the Kaiser's High Sea Fleet in June 1919 at Scapa Flow. Though it did not alter the balance of world naval power, it relieved the Allies finally of the threat that Adolf Hitler might gain the ships-which he unquestionably had attempted to do-and use them in the Battle of the Mediterranean. Since most of the French vessels had reportedly been blown up, there was little chance that the Germans could salvage them for their...
Interior Secretary Harold Ickes, for all his uniquely good record as a wartime administrator, was still the kind of man voters would love to swat at the polls. So was Presidential alter ego Harry Hopkins. Vice President Henry A. Wallace, universally believed to be the man Franklin Roosevelt had chosen as his successor, had failed to grow up as a politico: for all his good intentions and ready-made opportunities, he was still the same thoughtful, bashful, stumbling man who used to throw boomerangs at himself in East Potomac Park. To professional politicians, Democratic and Republican, he would always have...
Assistant on His Own. Archer Vandegrift does not fit the picture of a rip-roaring Marine officer. Most of his 33 years of service were spent as a quiet, efficient, unspectacular assistant to other men, an unegoistic alter...
When last week the Governor of Northern Ireland, the Duke of Abercorn, reprieved all but Thomas Williams, the Dublin reprieve committee was not consoled. Said the committee: "The reprieve of five of the men does not alter the position." Ireland, approving Thomas Williams' purpose, overlooked the law, added his name to its shield of defiance against the British...
...propaganda front, the U.S. and the United Nations will not fight Goebbels with his own dark medicine. There was a basis of truth in most of his twisted claims. The way to deny him ammunition was to alter the facts...