Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even forgeting this period in our national history, it is hard to hold a brief for American purity. The very essence of belief in democracy denies it. We lay claim to basic truth because we feel there is a common bond in the wants of all men, because we feel that the hopes and fears that are in us are in others, because we feel that our type of liberty will unite all men. The essence of this belief is neither liberty nor equality, but fraternity. To set ourselves apart and above the remainder of the world is to deny...
Last week people in the U.S. could read about the germination of this strangest of all the war's campaigns. Just published was a book by an ace reporter,* which told a grim and exciting story of the brief Balkan campaign. Robert St. John, then an A.P. man in Belgrade, followed the campaign from Yugoslavia to Egypt. What he has to say reads less like history than like a huge, super-delayed, super-exciting news dispatch...
...secret where U Saw was arrested, but the brief announcement from 10 Downing St. made no mystery of why he was arrested. "It has come to the knowledge of His Majesty's Government," the communiqué said flatly, "that he has been in contact with Japanese authorities since the outbreak of war with Japan. This fact has been confirmed by his own admission. His Majesty's Government has accordingly been compelled to detain him and it will not be possible to permit him to return to Burma...
...countries who may later be exchanged, there was last week a lost battalion of 22 correspondents in the Philippines who vanished two days before Manila's fall. Presumably they were with General MacArthur's forces on Bataan Peninsula. Only A.P.'s Clark Lee got out a brief dispatch-about three soldiers who escaped capture by playing dead. His story was relayed by Naval radio. Like MacArthur's bare communiqués, it said nothing about the whereabouts of the correspondents. Adventures of some others: > At Rangoon U.P.'s Darrell Berrigan lay dangerously ill of cerebral...
...defense has come in for little attention as yet, and Chase appears desirous of perfecting the attack before progressing to that department. Voluble on the ice, the new coach becomes very direct and brief when not directly concerned with his duties. He skates down with each charging wave, and will even take a stick and puck in hand to demonstrate a point...