Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Orders from Washington and careful staff work in Tokyo had begun to show results. Those who had doubted U.S. intentions toward Japan (see below) no longer had any excuse for doubting: the U.S. Government intended-as it always had intended-to subject Japan to severe retribution and a thorough occupation...
...Lively Invalid. Recent Russian propaganda pictures have begun to show the Generalissimo's grey hair. In any event, a redistribution of Stalin's manifold functions may soon be in order. Even the man of steel might want a rest now that the war emergency was past. In Potsdam photographs, his familiar figure looked out of place next to homey President Truman and Prime Minister Attlee...
...beginning to write the peace (see INTERNATIONAL). They had at least one eye on Japan and the progress of the occupation, but what really caught their eye from that quarter was a statement from General Eichelberger that it might all be over in a year. Mainly, they had just begun to think in earnest of uninhibited peacetime pursuits, of shiny new gadgets and shiny new cars...
...American-occupied zone, control authorities kicked out 40,000 Berlin block, street and house leaders. They had originally been appointed by the Russians to search out known Nazis, handle ration cards, report on available labor. The American report was that the small-fry German leaders had begun to wield power in their neighborhoods just as arrogantly as their predecessors in Germany's notorious block organizations had done under Hitler; some of them had actually worked under the Nazi regime. (The British still held to the block leaders, warned them not to consider themselves little kings but servants...
...letters with the name of former Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla, new and rival entry in the Mexican Presidential campaign. Before Alemán's mansion headquarters the paraders stopped, lowered the coffin. Then they set it on fire. With elections still ten months away, the shouting had already begun. Said cynical observers of Mexico's politics: the shooting may be expected momentarily...