Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...affair (TIME, Aug. 16 et seq.), the U.S.S.R. has looked ridiculously like a man who has lit up an explosive cigar. But last week the Soviet Foreign Office shaped its singed eyebrows into a frown and did its indignant best to act as though some capitalist had thrown a bomb...
...Clear Call Lanny Budd is assigned by Roosevelt to bone up on rockets and jets. This is to prepare him for a visit to Germany to quiz a German scientist (anti-Nazi) on German progress in developing the rocket bomb. Thereafter the episodes are what might be expected: the high moment of almost every Lanny Budd novel is an escape from the Gestapo, or the rescue of someone from a Fascist torture chamber...
Other Bulkes alumni described the indoctrination course given at the camp. Lecture topics included "The Communist Victory in the Chicago Strikes," and "The Ineffectiveness of the Atomic Bomb." (Students were told that the bomb had been tried out in the U.S. and had not even killed a goat.) The Russian language was taught because "it was bound to become the universal language...
...Between their colorful opening service at Canterbury Cathedral (TIME, July 12) and an equally colorful closing at Westminster Abbey on Aug. 8, the prelates worked five weeks in private with a businesslike disregard for comfort or show. With brief intermissions for communal lunch and tea, they met in the bomb-scarred Great Hall of Lambeth Palace, the Archbishop of Canterbury's London residence. They sat on hard wooden chairs (former conferences used comfort able armchairs and each bishop took home his chair as a memento). "There has nev er," commented the Manchester Guardian, "been a Lambeth Conference so free...
Generosity & Atomic Bombs. White-haired Dr. Ernest Jones told reporters: "Germany never got over its sense of guilt for starting the first world war . . . [And] do you think the Russians have ever got over killing their Great Father [the Czar]?" Dr. G. R. Hargreaves, chief medical officer of Unilever, thought the British "experience a terrific amount of guilt about American generosity." In the U.S., he had noted a "national feeling of guilt for having dropped the atomic bomb...