Word: awkwardnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Palestine to Korea, plenty of trusteeship problems still reared their awkward heads. But UNO had at least edged into one of the toughest problems San Francisco had bequeathed it-and the start was hopeful. The British, who have long smarted under catcalls of "Imperialism!" felt less defensive. They had cleared their decks, on mandates at least...
...week top UNRRA officials wondered what to do about General Sir Frederick Morgan. They had asked him to resign his post as UNRRA director in Germany after he had charged Polish Jews with planning to flee Europe (TIME, Jan. 14). The General had ignored their demands, and that was awkward...
...More awkward was the fact that the charge came close to truth. In Manhattan the pro-Zionist American League for a Free Palestine ran "so what" newspaper advertisements, arguing that if there was no such plan there should...
...Most awkward was the existence of the terror-stricken Jews themselves. Nightmares of the Hitlerian slaughter drove them on. In Poland sporadic anti-Jewish outbursts sped them. They filtered into the Allied-occupied zones of Germany...
Convinced of his skill, grateful whites have been calling on him ever since with all sorts of ailments. The relationship between a Negro doctor and white Georgians was awkward at first, but Dr. Funderburg's competence has won him respect. Now 57, he shuttles busily between modest frame offices in both counties, where whites wait their turn along with Negroes. Among white people who visit him regularly are a bank official, a school teacher, several members of prominent Georgia families...