Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time in five weeks, Generalissimo Stalin broke the Olympian silence of the Kremlin and spoke soothingly to the world in reply to 31 questions from U.P. President Hugh Baillie. His main points: 1) tension between Russia and the U.S. is not increasing; 2) Russia has not got the atom bomb; 3) Russia finds the presence of British troops in Greece "unnecessary," is "indifferent" toward the presence of U.S. warships in the Mediterranean; 4) Germany ought to become a political and economic unit...
...diplomat), it was still based on the infuriating axiom that anything Russia does is manifestly right and good. Molotov denounced U.S.-British "imperialists" as "new claimants to world domination," railed against "dollar democracy" and "money bags," charged (falsely) that the Baruch Plan sought a U.S. monopoly on the atom bomb. He displayed colossal but typical impudence when, as executor of one of the world's most brutal foreign policies, he charged certain circles in the West with using "extreme methods of pressure and violence." His speech was far sharper than Stalin's own brief answers. At week...
...Navy had counted on terrible destruction at Bikini to forestall homesickness. But the bomb, terrible enough by white men's standards, had not felled a single spindly palm on Bikini's scraggly head. The surrounding water was still dangerously radioactive last week-but that meant nothing to King Juda. In his plea to Commodore Ben Wyatt, the Kwajalein commander, King Juda recalled how wonderful the fishing had been at home on Bikini...
...bomb that wrecked a wing of the British Embassy in Rome was not the worst blast to hit the West's position in Italy last week, but it was pretty bad. One of the Tommies who guard the Embassy described the explosion...
...other bomb was figurative and political. The Socialists joined the Communists in a pact calling for "unity of action." This did not mean fusion, which the Socialists, after a furious split, had rejected last April. But an agreement calling for a vigorous nationalization program and the conquest of power by the working classes would probably pry the Socialists loose from their coalition with Premier Alcide de Gasperi's moderate Christian Democrats. Right-wing Socialist Giuseppe Saragat, who had led the fight against fusion, went along witH the new pact and read into it a portentous international significance. He said...