Word: arcs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tomorrow college students in every one of the United Nations will commemorate the Czech Student Massacre. Last year's anniversary saw sporadic demonstrations in England and Canada. Students who marched through the Arc de Triomphe were met by Nazi rifle fire. The United States was worrying about convoys. But tomorrow students in all the remaining free nations gather together pledged to fight for, and to attain, a world in which freedom of inquiry may again be a property of all. The systematic attack on education and liberal minds has been a steady auxiliary of Fascism's progress, and the Axis...
Granting General and Mrs. Hoge so much vision and foresight reminds us all of Joan of Arc's dream before her departure for Chinon. We believe that it is undue, and feel sure that even the General will not like it, as he must be aware that a Fairbanks resident, Donald MacDonald Sr., has worked the project over in every shape and form for 13 years, thus acquiring the flattering title of "Father of the International Highway...
...days the Chinese Government poured a mass of statistics in the ears of Willkie and his party. The Chinese case, however, was best presented, not by statistics, banquets and banners in the streets, but by 4,000,000 troops fanned out in a 2,000-and-more-mile protective arc against 500,000 well-equipped Japanese. Therefore Willkie was taken to the front...
...Joan of Arc serves him for a symbol of France-peasant and saint, feminine yet a soldier, she too was hoaxed into recantation, into momentary surrender, by the casuists and torturers, the enemy propagandists of her time. To Bernanos, France remains at heart a Christian and human patrie of which he believes 18th-Century economic nationalism made nothing but a caricature. The bourgeoisie that inherited France in the French Revolution never, he thinks, fooled the French people. "It found itself in the position of a parvenu who, after acquiring a historic estate, wonders how to make himself respected...
Grey Skies. The pathway to the ultimate goal of a United Nations advance from the South Pacific is long and tortuous. Closer to Tokyo by 600 miles is the U.S. air base at Dutch Harbor. Here last week, at the northern end of the Japanese arc, U.S. air power struck a solid blow...