Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Publication of the details was delayed until this week. But the root fact of the treaty was already known: it embodied a common policy of unyielding resistance to any new German aggression, a common approach to the reshaping of Europe. Prewar Czechoslovakia had divided its dependence between Russia, Britain, France, the Little Entente (with Yugoslavia and Rumania). All failed her. Postwar Czechoslovakia, in the person of Eduard Benes, looks first to postwar Russia...
...would hand the job over to the Bank for International Settlements, reorganized, refurbished and given plenty of new muscles to do the tremendous job. Said he: "We should build on the experienced machinery we have, instead of creating elaborate new machinery. . . . The program may seem modest. Yet, this realistic approach represents the best entry on a solid road towards the reconstruction of international money...
Youth In Crisis (March of Time) and Children of Mars (RKO-Radio) are two unusually vivid, powerful, short films about wartime juvenile delinquency.* Both films cover the same ground, but they are so different in approach and emphasis that they supplement each other...
...individual which has changed the old Army game of shuffling people like playing cards-face down. Said he: "We took him out of civilian life when his future was brightest . . . when he returns, we want his outlook and his chances for success to be just as brilliant." In the approach and scope of the project, military men see more than a thoughtful scheme for fitting Air Forces men and jobs smoothly together. They see what may be a preview of demobilization. If the Redistribution Center can ease men into new military jobs they are glad...
Scorched Earth. In the Peninsular War Wellington reestablished the ancient Portuguese military law of Ordenanza. Under this, at the approach of the enemy, all civilian men became militia, all the people left their houses, destroying all food stocks. In this dress rehearsal for the scorched earth policy which, two years later, Napoleon met in Russia, the French troops discovered "with surprise at first, then with anger, and finally with something like dismay, that they were entering a devastated country whose inhabitants had vanished. Towns and villages and hamlets were empty and ominously silent; no obsequious mayors came forward to placate...