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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...teacher comments often on his excellent foundation. Anne is in 4th. . . . All books had to be censored . . . [one] told of little Japanese children pointing at Americans and saying 'Look at their big noses. . . .' The Japanese were incensed, [said] Japan was not such a backward nation. . . . [When we sailed] we left everything there for the children in camp...
...voice and Churchill's backing to prove that France was still a power. So single was his purpose, so passionate his belief in his mission and in himself that he occasionally confused their identities. Once when Churchill pressed hard for some adjustment which struck De Gaulle as a backward step, he drew himself to his full, unshapely height: "Mr. Prime Minister, now that at last you have Joan of Arc on your side, you are still determined to burn her." As time went on, Churchill's patience with his solemn, intransigent protege wore thinner and thinner...
...experts also agreed to develop oil resources with "due regard" to the economic welfare of the producing countries. This simply meant that, in the setting of world quotas, backward nations whose chief revenue is derived from oil would be guaranteed shares large enough to keep their economies healthy...
...against Europe's dark backward and abysm of wars and revolutions, America was still a New World with its own democratic New Order still evolving. In an historic sense nothing very profound had as yet happened to America as a result of the war. But something had happened to Britain-something which jolted England's No. 2 churchman (with his colleague and superior, Dr. Temple) into viewing the war as not merely a struggle for survival between two political power groups, United Nations and Axis, but also as a symptom of a social disease so virulent, long-standing...
Professor Becker knows that the problems of international cartels, jangling currency systems, the dangers of economic security v. political independence will remain with us for years to come. We will have "imperialism" of a sort, for small and backward nations need capital that is owned by the big fellows. The status quo ante will be restored in many instances, simply because a war-weary world will follow the lines of least resistance. China, for example, may object to Britain's presence in Singapore. Yet the fact that China has no navy demands the presence of Western naval power...