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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nationalist leaders said: "We will fight to the bitter end . . . Nanking will hold out for six months." But they knew they could not keep these brave promises; the bitter end was at hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Naked City | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...Saint Vincent does not become bitter. He can only think of the immense job he has to do. Even at the end of his life, he complains of his weakness and inadequacy, and his final words to a novice are: love the poor with a love strong enough to make them forget the shame of accepting charity...

Author: By David E. Lilienthal jr., | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/23/1949 | See Source »

...October 1944 he entered a Navy Officer Candidate School, and was assigned to various naval stations and a submarine on the North Atlantic convey lanes. Farber is particularly bitter about the stretch he served in Denmark. "The Danes suffered very little from war," Farber writes. "All that they had to suffer was the loss of political and economic freedom. . . they had a good living and never any starvation, not like in Germany after the occupation by allied troops." Farber says Germany needs its economic freedom, and suggests the U. S. develop his country as a market for surplus goods...

Author: By Paul. W. Mandel, | Title: German Letters Gripe to Students about War Trials, Russians, Government, Music | 4/20/1949 | See Source »

Russia's charges were made before the United Nations Assembly in a bitter full scale attack on the New Atlantic Treaty by Andrel A. Gromyko, number one Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quake Shakes Pacific Coast; House Ok's Military Budget | 4/14/1949 | See Source »

DESPITE NINE YEARS INVASION, OCCUPATION AND BITTER PRIVATION, COURAGE AND DETERMINATION OF GREEK PEOPLE ADMIRABLE. HOWEVER WE MUST ENCOURAGE THEM TO CONTINUE PRESENT STRUGGLE JUST AS WE HAVE SHOWN WHOLEHEARTED SUPPORT BY GIVING...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 11, 1949 | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

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