Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Plans and a Vacuum. Meanwhile, Britain and Canada already have firm air policies in print. Britain's was brief, Canada's detailed and carefully designed to distinguish Canada's special interest from the Empire's (see p. 24). But they both called for tight International Air Transport Authority to license all world air routes and carriers and, as Britain put it, "eliminate uneconomic competition...
Died. Colonel John W. (William) Thomason Jr., 51, dashing Leatherneck litterateur; after a brief illness; in San Diego, Calif. A drawling, deadpan Texan, onetime reporter, as a 2nd Lieut. he snatched from Soissons, St. Mihiel, the Meuse-Argonne and Belleau Wood three decorations-as well as the hard-boiled anecdotes and swirling, on-the-spot sketches which first appeared as a book in his best-selling Fix Bayonets (1926). A decade ago he summed up his attitude toward Japan's early conquest in China with the prediction that he would die as a Marine Corps Brigadier General-leading...
...apology to Lippmann or a bow to the Pope or Clarence Streit, Adler admits toward the end of his book that perhaps leagues and alliances and regional enlargements of the "Peace-Group" have something to be said for them. With the air of a schoolmaster granting his pupils a brief holiday of the spirit, Adler counsels his readers to support or at least not interfere with a revived League of Nations. For a League or a Confederation might, he thinks, help accustom people to the idea of a single sovereign government for the world...
...Weary Ones. Mussolini's abdication caught Allied political advisers with their brief cases down. There was no plan, either political or military, to turn such a development to account. Hasty conferences followed with some of the King's and the Marshal's emissaries. The armistice was signed, but its announcement was withheld to coincide with a proposed airborne invasion of Rome and the beachhead landing at Salerno. The Germans moved quickly. They prevented the airborne venture by disarming vastly superior numbers of Italians to whom the Allies had looked for help, then concentrated everything available at Salerno...
Epical and Epoch-Making. The Album contains almost no text. Prolific Historian Adams, author of The Epic of America, Empire on the Seven Seas and more than 20 other volumes, limits himself to brief captions. Typical example is his comment on Boughton's painting of the Pilgrims going to church: "This painting is enshrined in the hearts of Americans, and it seems fitting to reproduce it. The men carried their muskets to church, placing them on a gunrack. In the center of the picture is seen the preacher with his Bible. The costume is correct for the period...