Word: calloused
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...Stars & Stripes B-Bag column, a callous G.I. summed it up: "I've lost my Fräulein. The other day I gave her my week's candy ration, and when I went back to see her, she did not want anything to do with me. Could it possibly be that she did not like the licorice sticks, the peanut bar and the tropical chocolate? I admit I don't like them, but then I'm not starving." He signed it: "Wondering...
Time for Squeeze. UNRRA men in Hunan find it practically impossible to determine how much rice is actually on hand. Chinese officialdom, far more conditioned to famine than to organized relief, or more concerned with "squeeze" (timehonored graft) than with efficiency, often seems utterly callous or thoroughly inept. There is no effort to control private rice supplies. Minor officials of CNRRA-UNRRA's Chinese extension-are afraid to make decisions. They will watch a village starve and report it back to UNRRA as dramatic evidence of famine and the need for more help, instead of sending the villagers...
...There must be a sequel to such brutality, a sequel, I pray, of retribution. What has been done with fascist murderer Red Thomas and his gang of cutthroats? What is being planned for Seattle's callous jailers that might jar them back into the 20th Century...
This, the ninth of the Whiteoaks novels, goes back to 1850, when Adeline ("Grand ma" of Jalna) is a bride, an unruly Irish minx whom callous readers will want to smack in earnest as her husband threatens to do in fun. Adeline and Captain Philip build their new home in Ontario, begin raising their now famous family, and otherwise provide one more variation of the story pattern familiar to thousands...
...that they were there largely to put their own thoughts on record, and then to give approval to what had already been agreed to by the U.S., Great Britain and Russia. At the public opening session China's spokesman, Dr. Wellington Koo, got applause even from the supposedly callous correspondents...