Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany, there was an end to foxhole life. But the captives and the war criminals were still coming in. The homeless trudged down the endless roads. The task of occupation had just begun, and many felt that the job ahead in Germany was just as important as the job concluded...
Minor Difficulties. As business boomed, Promoter Bell began talking of expanding his empire. More recently, he has begun to complain that "they" are persecuting him "just as they have always perse cuted those who believed in God and the Golden Rule." California businessmen indeed have begun to glance nervously in his direction...
Long before D-day in Normandy, the War Department had begun to plan for this job as part of the business of shifting its top weight from Europe to the Pacific. The number of men to be discharged, the yardsticks by which they would be selected, the manner in which others would be reshuffled had been one of the top secrets of tall, schoolmasterish Major General William F. Tompkins and his special planning division of the General Staff in Washington...
What's Missing? Considering the fanfare with which UNRRA was begun, and the vastness of its treasury, this record is small potatoes. One thing UNRRA does not lack is cash. But it woefully lacks: 1) prestige, 2) management, 3) efficient personnel...
...Ambassador Norman Armour at once demanded that Laval be turned out of Spain or interned. Laval chose internment. From Paris came word that the French Government had already begun extradition proceedings...