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...long been regarded as membered by impatient reformers. But this year the Council demanded a full accounting of China's wartime administration and delivered itself of responsible criticism on every part of China's crisis. Result: a sudden ray of hope in China's blackest year...
This was not the fault of the war, although this was the blackest of weeks for the enemy on both sides of the world. The steady flow of huge headlines-Cherbourg, Saipan, Vitebsk-could neither blot the Republican convention off the front pages nor out of Americans' minds...
...roadful of refugees, finally sets her down in Unoccupied France to run a village canteen, care for a motherless baby, marry a member of the underground. By this process she "grows a soul." Caldwell reintroduces a family she has written about before, the Bouchards, who are still the blackest-hearted munitions makers ever spawned by the folklore of America's peace-befuddled '30s. They quarrel, haggle, hate, interbreed with disdain, intrigue desperately against one another and their country. At the end of 561 perfervid pages, the toughest member of the current generation forces his malignant tribe to acknowledge...
...German burgher, this was the blackest New Year since Versailles. No oratory, no promise of retribution could conceal the vast and calamitous defeat in the East...
...wants to do the same job that took 25 prewar years to accomplish. The bill for this, from Russia to the U.S., will be roughly $10 billion, to be spent here for machine tools, agricultural equipment, power plants, oil refineries, i.e., in the very industries whose postwar outlook is blackest...