Word: brutalizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Challenge. But the atomic bomb was something more than an instrument to shape 1945's history. It represented a brutal challenge to the world to keep the peace. The scientists had created, and had successfully applied, a weapon which might wipe out with a few strokes any nation's power to resist an enemy...
Editor Cagney, aroused by the brutal murders of his good friends Reporter Wallace Ford & wife (Rosemary De Camp), who first try to get the plan out of the country, beards such Black Dragons as Baron Tanaka (John Emery) and Colonel Tojo (Robert Armstrong) in their ultra-ceremonious dens. He gets framed by the Japanese police; makes the romantic acquaintance of a half-Chinese beauty (Sylvia Sidney) whose access to high places stirs his suspicions; unmasks the crookery of a fellow-journalist (Rhys Williams); helps drive Tanaka to harakiri. For comic relief he makes a monkey, again & again...
...with welcome to the British, and Paget's red, handsome face beamed, Roget angrily ordered his men back to barracks. He raged that the British had shown up only after he had "restored order," and he told a Syrian journalist: "You are replacing the easygoing French with the brutal British." Unimpressed, Syrians killed what stray Frenchmen and Senegalese they could find. After curfew, the humiliated French had to accept British escort to places of safety...
...grazed sheep. Wherever the Red Army soldiers looked, hundreds of wild poppies bloomed. Among them stood a sign. The Russians read: "Here used to stand the village of Lidice" (obliterated in 1942, together with all but two of its inhabitants, by the Nazis in reprisal for the assassination of brutal "Hangman" Reinhard Heydrich...
Died. Denyse Clairouin, raven-haired French literary agent, translator of D. H. Lawrence and Tagore, and an ardent organizer of anti-Nazi resistance; of pneumonia (on March 12 but just reported), contracted when the Nazis gave her a brutal five-day ride in an open freight car from the Ravensbruck to the Mulhausen concentration camps...