Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole Japanese Empire last week. Off Luzon's western coast, the Jap radio screamed, were vast U.S. convoys whose guardian warships were blasting the defenses in Lingayen Gulf, 100 miles north of Manila. The Japs said troops were landing. General MacArthur's return to the Philippines, begun at Leyte last Oct. 20, might be nearing its crowning achievement. Among the smaller Philippine islands to the south, landings had been made to consolidate the hold of the liberating armies...
...Twisted Tail. The roaring was begun by the London Economist, a formidably good-mannered weekly which has no U.S. counterpart but might be described as a cross between the Wall Street Journal and a New Republic with muscles.* Along with most of the British press (notably excepting Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail), the Economist throughout the war has heeded official injunctions to go easy on America. Last week, just in time to be answered by President Roosevelt (see U.S. AT WAR), Economist Editor Geoffrey Crowther shed his inhibitions and stepped out, blowing hard...
...against Japan stood about where the war against Germany stood in 1943. The strategic bombardment of the enemy homeland had begun; but the battles with the enemy's major land forces were still to come. Soldiers in the Pacific complained that their war was neglected by the U.S. press and public. Yet the people were only following the cue of the Allied leaders; the defeat of Germany had been given priority over the defeat of Japan...
...arrival in Chungking last November with a corps of American steel and alcohol experts, Don Nelson found the Generalissimo impatiently waiting. Chiang had already begun organization of a War Production Board, had chosen as its boss honest, able Dr. Wong Wen-hao, renowned geologist and Minister of Economic Affairs. What he wanted the Americans to do was to buckle down at once to the details of the organization job. Their first chore: drafting an organic law for the Chinese...
UNRRA Out. A prime casualty of the civil war was UNRRA. Last week, before it had begun its mission, it was ordered back to Cairo till the shooting ended. The little men & women of Athens, round whose homes the battle swirled, went mostly hungry. Inside their area the British were feeding tinned meat every day to some 75,000 people, or one in 25 of the city's population. Less fortunate Athenians subsisted on herbs and grasses. Disease, handmaiden of hunger, had not yet appeared, but ELAS and British doctors, under Red Cross protection, thought it best to confer...